The Nigerian Experiment: Social Darwinism in Practice

Benjamin Kidd, Benjamin Wiker, Christianity, Christians, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, Darwinists, Europe, Evolution, Faith & Science, Flora Lugard, Frederick Lugard, Fulani, Galton Chair of Eugenics, Great Britain, Islam, John West, Karl Pearson, livestock, Lord Salisbury, Nazi Germany, New Testament, Nigeria, Nigerians, Northern Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, Racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racisim, scripture, Sir Charles Eliot, Social Darwinism, United States, University College London, William MacGregor, Yoruba
In the late 19th century, Great Britain, the United States, and twelve European nations got together and divided Africa up among themselves. Source
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Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

Brasilodon quadrangularis, convergent evolution, cynodonts, Cynognathus crateronotus, Early Jurassic, Evolution, evolutionary icons, Fossil Friday (series), Gondwana, Great Britain, James Rawson, Jonathan Wells, mammalian origins, mammals, middle ear bones, Oligokyphus major, paleontology, Reichert-Gaupp theory, reptiles, Riograndia guaibensis, South America, transitional series, University of Bristol, Zhe-Xi Luo
This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Source
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Human Rights and the Image of God

Amsterdam, atheists, Christianity, Confession of Faith, Declaration of Independence, England, equal rights, Faith & Science, Friedrich Nietzsche, Great Britain, Houston Christian University, human nature, image of God, Intelligent Design, Judaism, Luc Ferry, Museum of the Bible, Puritans, Richard Rorty, struggle for existence, The Will to Power, Westerners
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Source
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Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

African Christians, Chinua Achebe, colonialism, Culture, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Comes to Africa, Discovery Institute, Discovery Institute Press, Ebed-melech, Emily Whitten, Evolution, Great Britain, history, imperialism, Jeremiah, John West, missionaries, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, paganism, Podcast, scientific racism, scripture, Things Fall Apart, World Magazine
Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Source
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Jaw Dropping: Nature’s Irreducibly Complex Linkage Mechanisms

bicep, Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, biology, brain, Bristol University, cycling, dragonfish, engineers, Eric Anderson, Evolution, Great Britain, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, mantis shrimp, muscles, Olympics, parrotfish, Podcast, satellites, sling-jaw wrasse, Stuart Burgess
Bristol University engineer Stuart Burgess goes deeper into the marvels of such sea creatures as the parrotfish, sling-jaw wrasse, and mantis shrimp. Source
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A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

authoritarianism, C.S. Lewis, Camille Griffin, Christmas, Christmas carols, COVID-19, Culture & Ethics, Davida McKenzie, experts, government, Great Britain, Greta Thunberg, House Beautiful, Keira Knightley, Lily-Rose Depp, Matthew Goode, Medicine, movies, pandemic, profanity, Republicans, Roman Griffin Davis, Russia, scientists, Secularism, Silent Night, Sope Dirisu, spoilers, The Abolition of Man
The new Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Source
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Bernoulli, Keynes, and the Big Bang

A Treatise on Probability, Bertand’s Paradox, Conservation of Information, dice, distribution of reciprocals, Economics, fine-tuning, France, Great Britain, Jacob Bernoulli, John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian economics, No Free Lunch, nothing, Physics, Earth & Space, Principle of Insufficient Reason, probability, Robert J. Marks II, Scotland, something, thermodynamics, Wales, William Dembski, Winston Ewert
In analysis of fine-tuning, No Free Lunch Theorems, and conservation of information, Bernoulli’s PrOIR is foundational. Source
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