05Oct 2025 by Post

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin and His Critics, David L. Hull, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, Evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, ipse dixit, Jacob Gruber, James Barham, Lucretianism, odium antitheologicum, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, scientific reasoning, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa
Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Source
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29Sep 2025 by Post

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

Alfred William Bennett, anoura, anthologies, bats, biological origins, Books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, chelonians, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Ichthyosauria, Inkwell Classics in Evolution and Design, Inkwell Press, Intelligent Design, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, pterodactyles, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, The Saturday Review, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vertebrata, William George Ward
A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Source
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07Jul 2025 by Post

Scopes Revisited: An Interview with Historian Jefrey Breshears

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Promoted as a battle royale between science and religion — evolutionary theory versus biblical creation — in its actual content the trial was underwhelming. Source
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17Feb 2025 by Post

Darwin, Kinsey, and Stockholm Syndrome Christianity

Alfred Kinsey, Bible, Charles Darwin, Culture, Culture & Ethics, deviants, ethics, Faith & Science, Floyd Martinson, Harvard University, junk science, males, mammals, morality, pimps, prisoners, prostitutes, psychopaths, secularists, sex, sex offenders, sexual abuse, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, Stockholm Syndrome Christian, The Descent of Man, United States, Victorian England, zoologists
Perhaps the figure most responsible for the breakdown of traditional sexual ethics in Western culture was a Harvard-trained evolutionary zoologist. Source
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31Jul 2024 by Post

The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking

archaeologists, birds, bison, Casey Luskin, cave bears, cave lions, cooking, Darwinian theory, Evolution, flint flake, food processing, Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, horses, hot coals, human mind, Human Origins, Mariana Nabais, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, Portugal, reindeer, roasting, The Descent of Man, wolves, ZME Science
The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being. Source
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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
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02Mar 2023 by Post

Is Human Psychology Better Explained by Evolution or Design?

African Savannah, art, behavior, cathedrals, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian evolution, David Barash, environment of evolutionary adaptedness, evo psych, Evolution, evolutionary psychologists, evolutionary psychology, genes, Henry Schlinger, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, Judith Eve Lipton, just-so stories, Marc Hauser, Moon, museums, music, Oskar Schindler, Philip Skell, Pleistocene, Richard Dawkins, Subrena Smith, survival machines, The Descent of Man, Victorian England
“We are survival machines,” wrote atheist biologist Richard Dawkins, “robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.” Source
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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
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02Dec 2021 by Post

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

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If we want to effectively explain human behavior in all its messy richness, we would do well to look beyond this box of just-so stories. Source
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