26Aug 2024 by Post

Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

agnostics, atheists, Culture & Ethics, disabilities, Edward Tylor, Ernst Haeckel, Essays of the Birmingham Speculative Club, eugenics, euthanasia, Evolution, F. H. Bradley, Fortnightly Review, Francis Galton, Germany, Hans-Walter Schmuhl, Ian Dowbiggin, illnesses, International Journal of Ethics, Judeo-Christian tradition, Lionel Tollemache, Natural History of Creation, Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte, Nick Kemp, Punishment, self-murder, self-redemption, The Cure for Incurables, The Wonders of Life, usefulness, World War I
One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. Source
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09Aug 2024 by Post

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, Culture & Ethics, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Medicine, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith
"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Source
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12Jun 2024 by Post

Only Thick Darwinism Served Here

André Ariew, Burger King, C.S. Lewis, capitalists, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Darwinism, David Berlinski, eugenics, Evolution, Evolution News, evolutionary biology, Francis Galton, Freudianism, Hugh Desmond, Intelligent Design, J.P. Moreland, Liliana M. Dávalos, Marxism, Marxists, Nancy Pearcey, Nazism, Neil Thomas, Philippe Huneman, Quarterly Review of Biology, Thomas Reydon, Yoda complex
Want your Darwinism thick or thin? Sorry; if these four scientists argue correctly, you only get the thick slice with some rather unsavory seasonings mixed in. Source
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11Jun 2024 by Post

Darwin Devotion Detector: Take the Test Now

adaptation, atheists, Charles Darwin, chimpanzee, common descent, Darwin Day, Darwin Devotion Detector, eugenics, Evolution, free will, genes, Germany, humanzee, Intelligent Design, J.B.S. Haldane, Jane Austen, Judge John E. Jones, Kitzmiller v. Dover, Kolkata, Love, Meaning, meme theory, natural selection, population growth, purpose, rape, Richard Dawkins, secular saint, United States, value
A tongue-in-cheek questionnaire that nonetheless provides real insight into the extent to which Darwinian ideas have captured our thinking. Source
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30May 2024 by Post

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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22Aug 2023 by Post

“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists

alt-right, anti-Semitism, axioms, Charles Murray, Compact, conservatism, crime, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Democrats, elections, eugenic conservative, eugenicon, eugenics, Evolution, Evolution News, Holocaust, Human Zoos, John West, liberalism, Michael Lind, Milton Friedman, neologisms, Nick Fuentes, philosophy, policies, political parties, Politics, pseudoscientific racists, refrigerator, Republicans, Richard Hanania, Social Darwinists, social ills, Steve Sailer, United States
It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend. Source
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26Feb 2023 by Post

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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28Dec 2022 by Post

#5 Story of 2022: The Rise of Totalitarian Science

British Medical Journal, Canada, censorship, churches, civilization, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Day in America, discrimination, disinformation, eugenics, Evolution News, Facebook, free speech, government, Joe Biden, Jonathan Turley, Justin Trudeau, misinformation, National Public Radio, Nazi Germany, Pfizer Inc., Quebec, Ron Johnson, scientism, Social Darwinism, Surgeon General, totalitarian science, Twitter, United States, unvaccinated, vaccination mandates, vaccine, Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, Wisconsin, YouTube videos
Now, facts are becoming clearer — and so are the momentous consequences of the pandemic for our culture. Source
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