When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe
Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Source
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Admit an “Error” by Darwin and Huxley? Here’s How It Could Be Permitted

Aaron Hirsch, Bible, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinists, dominion, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Evolution, evolutionary theory, golf, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Kim Jon-il, Lord Byron, Nautilus, Nicolaus Copernicus, North Sea, On the Origin of Species, overfishing, psychology, T.H. Huxley
As we all know, evolutionary theory, like the famed golf game of Kim Jon-il, contains no errors or weaknesses of any kind. Source
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For Labor Day Weekend: Alfred Russel Wallace, Scientist and Working Man

Alfred Russel Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life, beetles, butterflies, Charles Darwin, Evolution, Indiana Jones, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Janet Browne, Labor Day, Lepidoptera, livelihood, Michael Flannery, Robert Darwin, Robert McCormick, summer, The Beagle, The World of Life
Take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Source
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To Avoid Debate, Darwinists at the AAAS Would Even Censor…Darwin

Adam Sedgwick, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biological Sciences section, business meeting, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, David Burgess, Evolution, free speech, Harvard University, Herman Bouma, Karl Nageli, Louis Agassiz, National Science Teaching Association, natural selection, neo-Darwinian evolution, pedagogy, professors, students, teachers, The Origin of Species, Vicki Chandler
A modest proposal to teach evolution the way Darwin treated his own theory has “no support” from one of the world’s most powerful scientific organizations. Source
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A College Student Gets Educated on Darwinian “Morality”

Atheism, BBC News, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, college students, conscience, Culture & Ethics, curriculum, ethics, Evolution, evolutionary ethics, Frans de Waal, God: The Failed Hypothesis, God’s Not Dead, indoctrination, materialism, Michael Egnor, moral relativism, morality, murder, Nicholas Wade, primates, situational ethics, The Descent of Man, Timothy Madigan, Victor Stenger
The student, who attends a public university, is worried about how this kind of indoctrination bodes for the future. I am too. Source
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Memory Purge: Eugenicist Margaret Sanger Gets Canceled by Planned Parenthood

Ben Carson, Black Lives Matter, black neighborhoods, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, civil rights, Culture & Ethics, Darwinism, eugenics, Evolution, Fox News, Human Zoos, John West, Karen Seltzer, Margaret Sanger, Margaret Sanger Square, New York City, Planned Parenthood, scientific racism, The Stream, Washington Times
Planned Parenthood seeks a way to quiet a controversy without searching its own soul. Source
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James Dwight Dana: Falsely Claimed Darwinist

Alfred Russel Wallace, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Journal of Science, Charles Darwin, Darwin Industry, Darwinian evolution, Darwinian theism, Encyclopedia Britannica, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Faith & Science, Geological Society of America, Geology, intelligent evolution, James Dwight Dana, Manual of Geology, mineralogy, National Academy of Sciences, natural selection, Scientific community, Spam Risk, theistic evolution, Uncategorized, William F. Sanford Jr.
When it comes to claims of the “nearly unanimous” acceptance of Darwinian evolution, mere assertion cannot stand as fact. Source
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Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief

abolitionist movement, Afghan Hound, Black Lives Matter, Border Collie, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, Christians, civil rights, Creativity, Darwinists, dominance, elk, Evolution, Human Zoos, John West, Judeo-Christian tradition, New York Times, Oregon, Ota Benga, pastors, Portland, priests, protesters, pseudoscience, racial hierarchy, Racism, scientific racism, scripture, statues, Wesley Smith
What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top? Source
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On Independence Day, Remember Thomas Jefferson’s Embrace of Intelligent Design

Bill Gates, Charles Darwin, Declaration of Independence, DNA, Founders, George Gaylord Simpson, human rights, Independence Day, Intelligent Design, John Adams, nature, Thomas Jefferson, United States, Watson and Crick
On Independence Day, it’s appropriate to review the sources of our rights as citizens. There is one source that is more basic than any other, yet that receives less than the attention it deserves. I refer to the idea that there is an intelligent creator who can be known by reason from nature, a key tenet underlying the Declaration of Independence — as well as, curiously, the modern theory of... Source
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