ClarenceDarrowduringScopesTrialcph3a44036-2 Type post Date July 7, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionHistory of ScienceHuman 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 ›
The Thinker Type post Author David Coppedge Date January 16, 2024 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindScientific Freedom Tagged , 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, epistemic virtues, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized David Coppedge January 16, 2024 Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom 8 An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›
Margaret Sanger Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 25, 2020 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , Ben Carson, Boston, Charles Darwin, Christopher Columbus, civil rights, Darwin Day in America, Discovery Institute, eugenics, J. Budziszewski, John West, Ku Klux Klan, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Sanger Square, memory, museums, New York City, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Robert E. Lee, Smithsonian Institution, statues, United States, V.I. Lenin, vandalism, Washington DC, Woodrow Wilson Margaret Sanger Statues Honor a Racist and Eugenicist; but as with Darwin, Let Her Stay David Klinghoffer June 25, 2020 Bioethics 6 Historical statues are a dispersed temple to memory, in need of vigilant guarding. Read More ›
Stump Speaking Type post Author Bruce Chapman Date May 22, 2018 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyEvolutionPhilosophyPolitical Science Tagged , __k-review, atheism, Bruce Chapman, Columbia University, culture, Darwinian theory, economics, Ernst Haeckel, Germany, gnosticism, government, Heritage Foundation, Johns Hopkins University, Politicians, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson Darwin, Marx, and Something Called Political “Science” Bruce Chapman May 22, 2018 Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Philosophy, Political Science 8 A central progressive theme was historicism, crediting history almost exclusively with the development of culture. Read More ›
