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Hitler's religion
Hitler's religion
Photo: Hitler in 1941, via Wikicommons.

Evolution and the Disturbing Consequences of Denying Free Will

How can an evolutionist such as Jerry Coyne condemn even something as manifestly heinous as the Nazi Holocaust? Read More ›
Marx and Engels
Image: Marx and Engels, by E. Capiro, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Linking Darwin Skepticism with Anti-Communism, Historian Offers a Misguided Attack

Weinberg's evidence that Discovery Institute uses intelligent design to bash communism is completely lacking. Read More ›
Werner Heisenberg
Photo: Werner Heisenberg, by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R57262 / Unknown author / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

At the Bottom of the Glass, God Is Waiting

The German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) is one of the fathers of quantum mechanics and ranks among the greatest scientists of the 20th century. Read More ›
Charlottesville demonstration 2017
Photo: Charlottesville demonstration, 2017, by Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC), CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism

The outlook of Hitler, the Nazis, and contemporary white nationalists have been significantly shaped by Darwinism. Read More ›
Richard Spencer
alt-right
Photo: Richard Spencer, by Vas Panagiotopoulos [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. Read More ›
Hitler's religion
Hitler's religion
Photo: Hitler in 1941, via Wikicommons.

Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda

The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality. Read More ›
Hitler
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Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism

Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right. Read More ›
Columbine Memorial
Photo: Columbine Memorial, Littleton, Colorado, by Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking

It was the spring 1999, a Denver suburb. The day, April 20 — Hitler’s birthday. An 18-year-old white nationalist donned a shirt emblazoned “Natural Selection.” Read More ›
Hitler-1536x806
Photo: Adolf Hitler, by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1216-0500-002 / CC-BY-SA, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now

To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin, in a scene from The War on Humans (screenshot).

Darwin on Trial (Again)

My attempt to disentangle this “case” forensically was to lead me on what was often a surprising journey of discovery. Read More ›

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