Tag: scientific racism

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Alexander H. Stephens, alt-right, American Renaissance, anti-Semitism, atheists, Ben Shapiro, California, Candace Owens, Christianity, Confederacy, conservatives, Darryl Cooper, Darwinian racism, David Cole, faith and science, Gavin Newsom, Greg Johnson, Groypers, Heritage Foundation, Human Zoos, interns, J. D. Vance, Jared Taylor, John West, Kevin Roberts, Nazis, New York Post, Nick Fuentes, Occidental Observer, phenotype, Psalms, Race Realism, Racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Taki’s Magazine, Tucker Carlson, Turning Point USA, Twitter, Woke Right}

Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

_{David Klinghoffer
November 4, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it. Read More ›

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Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, American Birth Control League, American Crisis, apologetics, Bible, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, culture, Dayton, Discovery Institute, Eugene Debs, Eugenics Education Society, Francis Galton, fundamentalist Christianity, H.L. Mencken, Hollywood, Industrial Workers of the World, Inherit the Wind, Jefrey Breshears, John Scopes, John West, Only Yesterday, Origin of Species, Roaring Twenties, science and religion, scientific racism, scientism, Scopes trial, Tennessee, The Areopagus, The Descent of Man, The Magician’s Twin, trial lawyers, William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson, Young Earth Creationists}

Scopes Revisited: An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears

_{Science and Culture
July 7, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

Promoted as a battle royale between science and religion — evolutionary theory versus biblical creation — in its actual content the trial was underwhelming. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 24, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, apes, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, chemistry, Christianity, Dante Alighieri, Darwinism, Erasmus Darwin, intelligence, intelligence tests, J. B. S. Haldane, J. R. R. Tolkien, John Milton, Lord Monboddo, Mars, Naomi Mitchison, Possible Worlds and Other Essays, race, science fiction, scientific racism, scientists, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, UNESCO}

The End of Scientific Racism

_{Daniel Witt
June 24, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

10}

J. B. S. Haldane initially subscribed to some of the racism of the era — but, to his credit, his views shifted over time as more evidence came to light. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Alfred Russel Wallace, apes, Asia, Australia, Charles Darwin, Fuegians, HMS Beagle, Indonesia, Isaac Newton, Lord Monboddo, Malays, man, non-Europeans, Papuans, Racism, scientific racism, The Descent of Man, Tierra del Fuego, Wallace line, William Shakespeare}

How Darwin Recruited Racism to His Theory

_{Daniel Witt
June 20, 2025

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

7}

Charles Darwin formulated his theory at a time when it was commonly assumed that different races of humans had different natural levels of intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 26, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Psychology
Tagged
, culture, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Darwin Day in America, Darwin's Corrosive Idea, Darwinism, evolution, faith and science, human dignity, ID the Future, John West, materialism, meaning, nature, podcast, Racism, scientific racism, Western culture}

John West on Darwin’s Culturally Corrosive Idea

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 26, 2025

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Psychology

1}

Darwin’s purely materialistic theory of evolution has drained meaning from nature. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, “consensus science”, Africa, apes, Bronx Zoo, conscience, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Eric Metaxas, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionary biology, Final Solution, human evolution, Human Zoos, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, racists, Scandinavia, scientific racism, St. Louis World's Fair, The Descent of Man}

West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist

_{David Klinghoffer
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

4}

This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, American Founding, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, genocide, history, Independence Day, intelligent design, John West, Martin Luther King Jr., Nazi Germany, Nazism, scientific racism, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Washington DC}

Watch: For July 4th, an Intelligent Design-Themed Tour of Washington, DC

_{David Klinghoffer
July 3, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design

2}

The whole city is a memorial to the ideas that inspired the American Founding. One of those is intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
October 5, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Science Education
Tagged
, Athena, Australopithecines, biological origins, butterfly, California Science Center, Cambrian Explosion, chimpanzees, Christmas, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, education, evolution, free speech, French Revolution, Genetics (journal), Günter Bechly, human brains, human origins, Human Origins Program, Human Zoos, humans, intelligent design, Jeffrey Schwartz, John West, mammals, mosasaurs, National Museum of Natural History, Niles Eldredge, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Racism, Richard Sternberg, Rick Potts, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, Stephen Meyer, Washington DC, Zeus}

Visitor’s Guide: At Nation’s Natural History Museum, Misinformation on Human Origins, and More

_{Casey Luskin
October 5, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Science Education

18}

Mammalian fossil exhibits at the Smithsonian claim that humans and all mammals descended from the “first mammal," perhaps Morganucodon. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Aleš Hrdlička, brains, Darwinian racism, evolutionary ladder, Human Zoos, scientific racism, Smithsonian Institution, St. Louis, St. Louis World's Fair, Washington Post, Washington University, whites, YouTube videos}

Maura: The Woman Whose Brain Was Stolen and Stored by the Smithsonian

_{John G. West
August 18, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

4}

Maura was brought from the Philippines to the U.S. in 1904 to take part in one of the public displays of indigenous people at the St. Louis World’s Fair. Read More ›

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Date
February 26, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Jeffrey O’Connell, master race, Michael Ruse, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, The Death of Humanity}

Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism

_{Science and Culture
February 26, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

1}

Darwin’s racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he expressed, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s diabolical outlook. Read More ›