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Image: HMS Beagle at Tierra del Fuego.

“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite. Read More ›
Ota Benga
Photo: African pygmy Ota Benga was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1906, in support of Darwinian theory, via Wikimedia Commons.

When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and to the West

Olufemi Oluniyi details how Darwinism fueled pseudo-scientific racism against Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. Read More ›
Charles Darwin statue
Charles Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Darwin’s Contribution to Racial Extermination

These men and others argued that the logical extrapolation of Darwin’s theory was the extermination of their fellow humans in the name of evolutionary progress!  Read More ›
Darwin Comes to Africa
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John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›
Tiger Moth
Photo: A tiger moth, by wanderingnome, via Flickr (cropped).

The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria

Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it just flits to a slightly different position. Read More ›
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When Darwin Came to Africa

Charles Darwin didn't spend much time in Africa. But his poisonous ideas certainly did. Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›
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Will an Engineering Paradigm Supplant Darwinism?

Its summer of dominance after neo-Darwinism arose and conquered every field of biology led to an autumn of colorful just-so stories, and now a Narnian rule. Read More ›
Turin
Photo: Turin, Italy, by Hpnx9420, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

John West in Turin, Italy: Intelligent Design’s Roots and Fruit

West celebrates Italy’s contributions to civilization but also calls attention to Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso, who championed various racist ideas. Read More ›
Eugenics Society
Photo source: Wellcome Library, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Eugenics Movement Presents Remarkable Historical Parallels with “Gender-Affirming Care”

Pushing trans theory on young children, molding their brains before they’ve reached the age of consent, is hardly giving them a free choice. Read More ›

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