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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 ›
Olufemi Oluniyi
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Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Origin of Species — A Safe Book in the South?

We can assume that this writer would have been a Connecticut Yankee, a strong opponent of the South and slavery. Read More ›
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John West: Darwin’s Corrosive Idea

Darwin’s materialistic theory of evolution drained meaning from nature, undercut the idea of inherent human dignity, and fueled the rise of scientific racism. Read More ›
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Listen: How Darwinian Materialism Poisoned Mainstream Ethics

Richard Dawkins felt free to encourage experimentation in ape-human hybrids, work that Dawkins hopes will undermine the idea that humans are anything special. Read More ›
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Anti-Racists Often Ignore This Non-Religious Source of Racism

Many white nationalists claim that Darwinism directly supports their ideology, because they think that races have evolved to different levels. Read More ›
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Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›
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Ties that Bind: The Alt-Right’s Connections to Social Darwinist Madison Grant and Eugenics

It’s important to understand what the Alt-Right believes. They are not just an extreme offshoot of either the Right or the Left. Read More ›
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Hitler's religion
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Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda

The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality. Read More ›

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