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Darwin's voyage: exploration and discovery

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 8, 2013

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
History of Science
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, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, book reviews, Charles Lyell, common descent, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace), design detection, eugenics, history, imperialism, naturalism, Social Darwinism, teleology, theistic evolution}

What Would a World Without Darwin Look Like?

_{Michael Flannery
April 8, 2013

Bioethics, Evolution, History of Science

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Imagine that Darwin had fallen overboard and there was no Origin of Species or anything else from his pen. Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
April 5, 2012

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
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, __k-review, Alvin Plantinga, Darwinian evolution, random, Social Darwinism}

So Where Does the Conflict (with Alvin Plantinga) Really Lie?

_{Jay W. Richards
April 5, 2012

Evolution, Faith & Science

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I belabor the semantic point concerning "Darwinism" because the Darwinian enterprise includes a methodological exclusion of design and notoriously equivocates on words such as "evolution," "random," and even "design." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 5, 2012

Categories
Evolution
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, __k-review, Darwinian evolution, News, Politics, Social Darwinism, speciation}

“Social Darwinism”: How a Catch-Phrase Grew

_{David Klinghoffer
April 5, 2012

Evolution

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"Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes reportedly said that one good catch-phrase can stop thinking for fifty years. This one certainly has." Read More ›

A video camera, mounted on a tripod, is set up in a courtroom, facing the judge's bench and jury box. The courtroom is empty, with sunlight streaming through the windows.

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Author
John G. West

Date
November 10, 2011

Categories
Bioethics
History of Science
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, __nedited, Alleged (film), Civic Biology, Darwin, Darwinists, eugenics, Haeckel’s embryos, history, Inherit the Wind, John Scopes, junk science, Racism, scientific racisim, Scopes Monkey Trial, Social Darwinism, video, William Jennings Bryan}

New Film Exposes Bigotry and Junk Science of Early Twentieth-Century Darwinists

_{John G. West
November 10, 2011

Bioethics, History of Science

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The scientific community can be dominated by a dogmatism that subverts rational thought and an honest evaluation of the evidence. Intriguingly, this truth seems to have been recognized by none other than John Scopes later in life. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 6, 2008

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Tagged
, __edited, Alfred Russel Wallace, bioethics, eugenics, materialism, morality, scientism, scientocracy, Social Darwinism, Views}

Biomorality, Scientism, and “the Meddlesome Interference of an Arrogant Scientific Priestcraft”

_{Michael Egnor
December 6, 2008

Bioethics, Ethics

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Alfred Russel Wallace, who along with Charles Darwin discovered and advanced the theory of evolution, was, unlike Darwin, a deeply spiritual man who was convinced that materialistic natural selection did not fully explain the origin of man. Unlike so many of his philosophically materialistic scientific colleagues, Wallace was a fierce critic of eugenics and the arrogant scientism of his day. Wallace wrote: Segregation of the unfit is a mere excuse for establishing a medical tyranny. And we have had enough of this kind of tyranny already…the world does not want the eugenist to set it straight … Eugenics is simply the meddlesome interference of an arrogant scientific priestcraft.1 Commenting on our modern scientific priestcraft, Steven Lenzer has a superb essay Read More ›