Category: Ethics

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Author
John G. West

Date
March 8, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Africa, British colonialism, British colonizers, Carl Linnaeus, Charles Darwin, colonialism, Darwin, Darwin Comes to Africa, DarwinComestoAfrica.com, Darwinism, Evolution, genocide, Heinrich Ernst Ziegler, human evolution, John G. West, Natural Selection, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, racial conflict, racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Scientism, Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest, The Descent of Man, The Origin of Species}

When Darwinian Racism Came to Africa, and the West

_{John G. West

March 8, 2023

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future features another reading from scholar Olufemi Oluniyi’s new book, Darwin Comes to Africa. In this excerpt we learn how Darwin himself laid much of the groundwork for social Darwinist ideas, primarily in his book The Descent of Man, and how those ideas were energetically developed in the ensuing decades by various mainstream scientists. Oluniyi further details how their work fueled pseudo-scientific racism against black Africans and other indigenous peoples outside the West. To learn more about this neglected corner of modern Western history, and for the good news that the flow of evidence has turned against Darwinism and, with it, social Darwinist principles, pick up Oluniyi’s book here.

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 27, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Africa, British colonialism, British colonizers, chimp-human hybrids, colonialism, Darwin, Darwin Comes to Africa, DarwinComestoAfrica.com, Darwinism, Evolution, human evolution, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, John G. West, Natural Selection, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, pseudoscience, racism, scientific racism, Scientism, Social Darwinism, survival of the fittest}

When Darwinism Came to Africa, Horrors Ensued

_{John G. West

February 27, 2023

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, hear a Nigerian voice-actor reading from the opening pages of Nigerian scholar Olufemi Oluniyi’s new book, Darwin Comes to Africa. In this section from the preface, Oluniyi explores the relationship of Darwinism to Social Darwinism, and some of the ways Social Darwinism fueled and justified horrific ideas and actions among European thinkers and colonizers. Oluniyi tells the story of Russian scientist Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, who, guided by Social Darwinist thinking, “sought to produce a race of super-soldiers for Stalin’s army by impregnating French Guinea women with the sperm of a dead chimpanzee—black African women, mind you, who were presumed to be less highly evolved and thus closer to chimpanzees than were white European women.” As Oluniyi Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
February 22, 2023

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Africa, British colonialism, colonialism, COVID-19, Darwin, Darwin Comes to Africa, DarwinComestoAfrica.com, Darwinism, John G. West, Nigeria, Olufemi Oluniyi, racism, Reconciliation in Northern Nigeria, Scientism, Social Darwinism, University of Edinburgh}

Olufemi Oluniyi’s New Book, Darwin Comes to Africa

_{John G. West

February 22, 2023

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, scholar John West introduces Darwin Comes to Africa, the new book by Nigerian pastor, theologian, journalist, scholar, and human rights activist Olufemi Oluniyi. The work explores the poisonous influence of social Darwinism on British rule in northern Nigeria in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, a poisonous influence felt in Oluniyi’s home country down to the present, he argues. The book project grew out of Oluniyi’s intimate knowledge of Nigerian culture as well as his attendance at the 2017 Center for Science & Culture Summer Seminar program in Seattle, Washington. By the end of that nine-day gathering, he had resolved to write a book about the impact of Social Darwinism on his home country Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
October 5, 2022

Categorized
Ethics}

Wesley J. Smith, John West Decry the Demonizers and Dehumanizers

_{Wesley J. Smith

October 5, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners the second half of a panel discussion at the 2022 Center for Science and Culture Insider’s Briefing. This portion begins with bioethicist and Discovery Institute senior fellow Wesley J. Smith making a surprising argument: His own field, bioethics, is at war with true medical ethics. Specifically, its most prominent figures—hailing from elite universities in the United States and Europe—are dedicated to emptying our medical culture of traditional ethical standards that protect human rights and are guided by a commitment to inherent human dignity. Some leading bioethicists see human beings as of no more inherent value than yeast. Smith stands athwart this anti-human trend and urges listeners to wake up and push back. Then John Read More ›

Richard Weikart at the CSC Insiders Briefing 2022

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
October 3, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
__focus-north, "human zoos", "Olufemi oluniyi", Alt Right, anti-racism, Buffalo mass shooting, Center for Science and Culture, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Columbine shooting, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwinian criminology, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian Racism, Darwinism, Eric Harris, Evolution, Evolutionary Ethics, evolutionary theory, genocide, Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting, human exceptionalism, human progress, human zoos, John’s G. West, Might is Right, Museum of Criminal Anthropology, neo-Nazis, nihilism, northern Italians, racial differences, racism, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Spencer, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, southern Italians, The Descent of Man, Turn Italy, white nationalism}

Darwinian Racism Then and Now

_{Richard Weikart

October 3, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights Darwinian racism, past and present. In this first half of a panel discussion at the 2022 Center for Science and Culture Insider’s Briefing, Darwin Day in America author John West introduces the other panel members, teases an upcoming book, Darwin Comes to Africa, and discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, where the work of infamous Darwinian criminologist Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution and race are on dramatic display. Then historian Richard Weikart, author of Darwinian Racism, debunks the popular media claim that white nationalist racism in America is a Southern evangelical phenomenon. Weikart shows that the most prominent white nationalists show little if any interest in promoting Christianity, Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 22, 2022

Categorized
Ethics}

Darwinian Racism vs. Evolutionary Ethics that Devalue All Men Equally

_{Richard Weikart

June 22, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future again features Darwinian Racism author and historian Richard Weikart and radio host Hank Hanegraaff exploring the pernicious impact Charles Darwin and Darwinism have had on modern ethics. Ideas laid out in Darwin’s The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man fueled scientific racism in the United States and Nazi Germany, Weikart says, and undergird the ideas of contemporary white nationalists, who tend to be virulently anti-Christian and pro-Darwin. We can take some comfort from the fact that white nationalists are a fringe movement and that most evolutionists today are anti-racist, Weikart says, but he notes that Darwinian materialism has poisoned mainstream ethics in another way, by devaluing humans generally. This is why someone as mainstream Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
June 20, 2022

Categorized
Ethics}

Richard Weikart and Hank Hanegraaff Talk Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart

June 20, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, radio host Hank Hanegraaff interviews historian and Center for Science and Culture senior fellow Richard Weikart about his book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. The two look at how Darwinism fueled scientific racism and an aggressive and frequently racist eugenics movement not just in Nazi Germany but, earlier, in the United States, where many leading, even mainstream voices, including Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, top business magnates, and some liberal Protestants enamored of evolutionary theory pushed compulsory sterilization laws, which were passed in Indiana, California, and other states. Weikart shows how these laws were fueled and informed by ideas laid out in Darwin’s The Descent of Man, ideas that also Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
April 25, 2022

Categorized
Culture, Ethics

Tagged
Big Bang, Bill Gates, Catholic thought, Daniel Henninger, David Berlinski, declining homicide rate, eternal universe, homicide rate, Human Nature, medieval murder rate, Michael Medved, Notre Dame Cathedral, Notre Dame fire, Russian invasion of Ukraine, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Devil Resurfaces in Ukraine Vladimir Putin, The Devil’s Delusion, The Kellogg–Briand Pact, Whig history, World War I, World War II}

Medved, Berlinski Take on Steven Pinker and Whig History

_{David Berlinski

April 25, 2022

Culture, Ethics}

On this ID the Future, Human Nature author and polymath David Berlinski and radio host Michael Medved discuss everything from human depravity, the burning of Notre Dame, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the Big Bang and a quixotic century-old pact to ban war. Berlinski argues that the case for the death of God and the case for the impending demise of human depravity have been greatly exaggerated. Contra Steven Pinker, Berlinski insists that there is little if any evidence that human evil is being steadily rolled back by the spread of secular values. Further, the idea that science has disproven God flies in the face of trends running in the opposite direction, perhaps most dramatically in the triumph Read More ›

Babys brain and nervous system,3d rendering fetus with brain x-ray inside, 3d illustration.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 11, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Bioethics, Buck v. Bell, China, CRISPR, Down Syndrome, embryonic research, Eugenics, gene editing, gene-edited children, genetic testing, germline gene editing, Humanize.show, in vitro fertilization, IVF, malaria, Nature Magazine, Nazi Holocaust, Oliver Wendell Holmes, polygenic risk scores, sickle cell anemia, somatic gene editing, Tay–Sachs disease, the journal Nature, type 2 diabetes, Wesley J. Smith. Robert Crowther}

Wesley J. Smith Unpacks Nature Article about Alarming Gene Editing

_{Wesley J. Smith

April 11, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, bioethicist Wesley J. Smith explores a recent article in the journal Nature, “The Alarming Rise of Complex Genetic Testing in Human Embryo Selection.” As alarming as that title sounds, Smith says the reality is even worse than the Nature article suggests. Using the breakthrough technology known as CRISPR, scientists are not only altering the genes of a given creature, including humans, but are even altering the creature’s germline. This threatens to permanently alter a species, Smith explains, including the human species. There’s the question of whether we have the right play god in this way, of course. There’s also the practical issue of scientists not really knowing what they are doing yet. A gene identified Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, Darwinism, David Berlinski, emotivism, Evolution, God, human exceptionalism, human rights, Humanize podcast, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jewish Holocaust, Marcel Schützenberger, Materialism, metaphysics, methodological materialism, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, nature rights movement, Nazis, Nazism, nihilism, Notre Dame, Peter Abelard, philosophy of science, random mutations, self-referential fallacies, The SS State, Theism, Wesley J. Smith}

David Berlinski on Nazism, Darwinism, Emotivism, and Nature Rights

_{David Berlinski

March 30, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, Human Nature author David Berlinski continues his conversation with host Wesley J. Smith. Here Berlinski reflects on the Jewish Holocaust, the destructive nihilism of the Nazis and the SS, and the shortcomings of Neo-Darwinism as an explanation for the diversity of life. Berlinski and Smith also discuss the increasingly widespread attacks on human exceptionalism, the growth of emotivism and why it’s a problem, and the bizarre nature rights movement. This is the second and concluding part of a conversation borrowed, with permission, from Wesley J. Smith’s Humanize podcast.