Remembering Bernie Widrow, a Great Engineer and a Wise Scientist

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Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron. Source
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Our View of Nature Matters; Here’s Why

Adolf Hitler, authoritarianism, beauty, Berghof, Cambridge, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Colorado, dehumanization, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute Academy, DiscoveryU, Education, Evolution, German-Austrian border, information codes, Intelligent Design, Long Story Short, meadows, Michael Egnor, mountains, nature, serenity, Stephen Meyer, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos
I was standing amidst the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler’s retreat near the German-Austrian border, where some of the worst atrocities in history were planned. Source
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How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

Adolf Hitler, American Birth Control League, Birth Control Review, Blessed Are the Barren, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Communism, concentration camp, Culture & Ethics, Eugen Fischer, eugenics, Evolution, Garrett, Islam, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Lothrop Stoddard, Maafa 21, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King Jr., Mein Kampf, Michael Flannery, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Swahili, William Graham, World War I
American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Source
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Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism

Adolf Hitler, Cal State Stanislaus, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, eugenics, Evolution, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Jeffrey O’Connell, master race, Michael Ruse, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Social Darwinism, struggle for life, The Death of Humanity
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. Source
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A Miraculous Existence

A Big Bang in a Little Room, Adolf Hitler, advanced life, aliens, astronomers, Atheism, atheists, bacteria, Bible, capillary action, Carl Sagan, Contact (novel), cosmic microwave background radiation, Creation, deaths, divine action, faith, Faith & Science, galaxies, Goldilocks, history, human genome, hydrogen, Ivy League, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, miracles, New England Patriots, Physics, Earth & Space, Super Bowl, surface tension, theoretical physics, touchdown, universe, wackiness, Zeeya Merali
Zeeya Merali asks a good question: If God desired to send us a message, how would He do it? Source
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Before the Third Reich: America’s Darwinist Eugenics Crusade

Adolf Hitler, Carrie Buck, Catholics, Center for Science & Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, eugenics, Evangelical Christians, Evolution, forced sterilization, history, John West, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., religious leaders, Richard Weikart, scientists, Supreme Court, United States
One of the most famous instances was Carrie Buck, sterilized as “feeble minded” despite going on to live a normal productive life. Source
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Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism

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Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right. Source
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Whoopi Goldberg: Ignorant about Darwinian Racism; But of Course She Shouldn’t Be Fired

ABC, Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitism, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, eugenics, Evolution, history, Holocaust, Jews, New York Post, pseudoscience, Race, Racism, Richard Weikart, skin color, Stephen Colbert, white nationalism, Whoopi Goldberg
Hitler was clear that he deplored the mistake of basing anti-Semitism on “religious ideas instead of racial knowledge.” Source
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Listen: Richard Weikart Reviews a New Book on Social Darwinism

Adolf Hitler, California State University Stanislaus, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, eugenics, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, ID The Future, master race, Richard Weikart, Social Darwinism, The Death of Humanity
The book paints Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little influence on Hitler’s master race ethic. Source
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