Racism – Page 2 – Christian Life Coaching Franklin Tennessee

30May 2024 by Post

How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

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American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Source

29May 2024 by Post

Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps

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A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist. Source

21May 2024 by Post

Is Vitalism Making a Comeback?

"God of the gaps", Andrea Roli, argument from ignorance, biology, blacks, élan vital, Ernst Mayr, Evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, Huffington Post, Intelligent Design, Irish immigrants, Jacques Monod, James Barham, James Shapiro, Kardashian family, Peter Corning, Racism, Samir Okasha, Stuart A. Kauffman, University of Chicago, vital force, vitalism

For proponents of ID, there is a natural temptation to respond to this sort of explanation with derision. I suspect this reaction may be short-sighted. Source

02Nov 2023 by Post

Woke Watch: The Ideological Transformation of Medical Journals

alarmists, biodiversity, climate hysteria, Conference of the Parties, Culture & Ethics, Dubai, emergency declarations, equity, experts, global warming, Guns, health, health journals, ideology, medical journals, Medicine, natural world, periodicals, planetary health, public health, Racism, technocracy, United Arab Emirates, World Health Organization

Now, the political alarm is over "planetary health," which covers a lot of, er, ground. Source

22Jul 2023 by Post

Richard Weikart on Racism, Darwinism, and Christianity

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If living things are only the result of chance processes, does human life have any intrinsic value? Source

03Jun 2023 by Post

UN Human Rights Recommendation Brands Abortion Restrictions “Racial Discrimination”

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Simply as a matter of strategy, the just cause of eliminating racism should focus exclusively on fighting actual discriminatory policies. Source

12May 2023 by Post

Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again

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Darwin could never be considered the kind of anti-racist activist Graves makes him out to be. Source

18Mar 2023 by Post

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charleston, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Evolution, history, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Lake Superior, primary sources, Races of Man, Racism, Royal Agricultural College, S. P. Woodward, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States

Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Source

21Feb 2023 by Post

The Cruel Legacy of Social Darwinism in Nigeria

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Social Darwinism rests like a tiger moth on Darwinism, its mother theory; when challenged with facts, it just flits to a slightly different position. Source

03Oct 2022 by Post

Darwinian Racism, Past and Present

Center for Science & Culture, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, criminology, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, humans, Italy, materialism, Museum of Criminal Anthropology, racial struggle, Racism, Richard Weikart, The Descent of Man, Turin, white superiority

John West discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, and Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution. Source

Category: Racism