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Thomas Henry Huxley
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Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Read More ›
Los Angeles
Photo credit: Tony Webster from San Francisco, California, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Sickening: Darwinian Racism Alive and Well in California

The vile trope that blacks are somehow closer to apes than other races has deep roots in Darwinian biology and social theory. Read More ›
racism
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Is Methodological Naturalism Racist?

It is well established that people of color are poorly represented in STEM fields compared with their representation in the larger population. Read More ›
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›
Detroit
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Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Read More ›
bedtime story
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From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment. Read More ›
Washington University
Photo: Basement of Cupples Hall, Washington University, by John West.

Biologist: It’s “Racist” to Invite Condemnation of Racism

Organizers of the St. Louis World’s Fair believed human zoos would “shed light on the theory evolved by Darwin as regards the evolution of the human race.” Read More ›
Homo erectus pekinensis
racism
Image: An artist imagines Homo erectus pekinensis, by Cicero Moraes [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Why Darwinism Can Never Separate Itself from Racism

The thread of racism in Darwinian thinking isn’t a chance thing, a mere byproduct of Charles Darwin’s personal views as a “man of his time.” Read More ›
John Derbyshire
Photo: John Derbyshire (center) discusses “6 Ways Race Realism Can Go Mainstream,” via YouTube (screen shot).

John Derbyshire: A Useful Darwinian Racist

Darwinian evolution will never succeed in disentangling itself from racism because it must always have its “official subhuman.” Read More ›
Josef Mengele
Photo: Dr. Josef Mengele (center) at Auschwitz, by Bernhard Walther or Ernst Hofmann or Karl-Friedrich Höcker, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Following the Science, Doctors Joined the Nazis “In Droves”

There is a tendency to sanctify the medical profession, with the white coat serving as an icon of wisdom, compassion, and morality. Read More ›

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