Thomas Malthus Type post Author Michael Flannery Date November 27, 2023 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, economics, eugenics, laissez-faire, Michael Shermer, natural selection, Ross A. Slotten, Thomas Malthus, Wesley J. Smith, World War II Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference Michael Flannery November 27, 2023 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 4 No wonder Alfred Russel Wallace called eugenics “the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.” Read More ›
Thomas Malthus Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 10, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionLife Sciences Tagged , "survival of the fittest", capitalism, cosmogenic myth, economics, evolution, laissez-faire, Michael Denton, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe Myth-Making and Malthus Neil Thomas January 10, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences 4 After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy. Read More ›
Ernst Haeckel Type post Author Richard Weikart Date April 26, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , biologists, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, evolutionary ethics, Germany, Jeffrey O’Connell, Julian Huxley, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, militarism, racial extermination, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, Thomas Henry Huxley, World War I New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists Richard Weikart April 26, 2021 Bioethics, Evolution 4 The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›
Herbert Spencer Type post Author Richard Weikart Date April 22, 2021 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer Richard Weikart April 22, 2021 Bioethics, Evolution 6 The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›
