Culture & Ethics – Apologetics Ministry

16Jan 2021 by Post

To Say the Lease, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

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Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Source

15Jan 2021 by Post

When Darwinism Reigns, “The Pyramid Is the Point”

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The Darwinian view encourages a way of interacting with others where the aim is to “humiliate [one’s] lesser brethren, just to remind them who’s boss.” Source

08Jan 2021 by Post

Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism

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George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant. Source

07Jan 2021 by Post

Bright Idea: Put Scientists in Charge Instead?

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Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians? Source

24Dec 2020 by Post

#9 Story of 2020: An Antidote to Despair

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I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race. Source

13Dec 2020 by Post

Darwinism, Storytelling, and the Futurist ET Myth

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The implication is clear: the alien monolith has somehow bequeathed to him and his little tribe a sudden quantum leap in brain power. Source

12Dec 2020 by Post

Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine

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The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe. Source

11Dec 2020 by Post