Tag: human exceptionalism

Richard Weikart at the CSC Insiders Briefing 2022

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Richard Weikart

Date
October 3, 2022

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Ethics

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__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
David Berlinski

Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

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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.

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
January 3, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
animal experiments, Bioethics, Casey Luskin, China, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, CRISPR, Down Syndrome, Eugenics, genes, genetic editing, genetic engineering, genome, germline genetic engineering, He Jiankui, HIV, human exceptionalism, sanctity of life, somatic germline editing, Wesley J. Smith}

Wesley J. Smith Sounds the Alarm on Germline Genetic Editing

_{Wesley J. Smith

January 3, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, bioethicist Wesley J. Smith makes the case for passionate opposition to, and stricter bioethical regulations against germline genetic engineering that changes not only the genetics of the subject but also of all that subject’s descendants. He and episode host Casey Luskin discuss germline genetic editing in China, the brouhaha that ensued when the experimental work by He Jiankui came to light, and why Smith is convinced that China’s disapproving response is less than it appears on the surface. He’s convinced, he explains, that the Chinese government wasn’t upset that the Chinese scientist conducted the experiment. They surely knew about his work and allowed it, Smith says. Rather, they and the scientific establishment internationally were upset Read More ›

Sunset in the sea, a small sailing boat at sunset away

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
September 29, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
abrupt appearance, African perspective, African scientists, agnosticism, Atheism, beginning of universe, Biological Information, Casey Luskin, Creationism, David Gelernter, Dover intelligent design trial, Dover vs. Kitzmiller, fine tuning, Fossil Record, history of life, human exceptionalism, irreducible complexity, local fine tuning, Michael Shermer, Molecular Machines, Neil Thomas, New Atheism, new new atheists, nihilism, Phil Torres, purpose, Return of the God Hypothesis, Salon.com, Sapiens, Science, Science and faith, scientific Materialism, Scientism, Stephen Meyer, Steven Weinberg, supernatural, superstition, Theism, Thomas Nagel, warfare model, Western perspective, Yuval Noah Harari}

Bidding Adieu to Steven Weinberg’s Take on Science and Faith

_{Casey Luskin

September 29, 2021

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, Casey Luskin, associate director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, discusses his Evolution News article about the recently deceased Steven Weinberg. On Weinberg’s view, one of science’s social functions is to undermine religion, which he sees as superstition. Luskin takes the opposite view and points to skilled and successful scientists he got to know in Africa. He says these scientists are convinced that the supernatural is real and would find Weinberg’s secular Western rejection of the supernatural as blinkered. Luskin and host Robert Crowther also discuss a hopeful trend among some atheists toward a more civil and respectful way of engaging intelligent design, even to the point of acknowledging that design theorists are Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 12, 2021

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Alfred Russel Wallace, Anglo-centrism, anti-slavery, Applied Eugenics, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, craniology, craniometry, domestic breeding, Eugenics, forced sterilization, Francis Galton, Fuegians, genocide, human exceptionalism, human zoos, imago dei, indigenous peoples, intrinsic human dignity, Malay Archipelago, Martin Luther King Jr., nature red in tooth and claw, Paul Popenoe, philosophical materialism, pigeon breeding, racial equality, racism, Roswell Hill Johnson, scientific racism, slavery, The Descent of Man, The Origin of Species, World of Life}

Darwin Day Meets Black History Month–Sparks Fly

_{Michael Flannery

February 12, 2021

Ethics}

As a nod to Darwin Day and Black History Month, today’s ID the Future spotlights the racist thinking of Charles Darwin and the scientific racism fueled by Darwinism and Darwinists. As guest and historian Michael Flannery notes, Darwin’s followers, including Darwin’s cousin, Francis Galton, took ideas found in Darwin’s work and used them to vigorously press the case for eugenics, a movement that came to have a horrifying impact for American blacks in the twentieth century, including for thousands who were subjected to forced sterilizations. Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Flannery says no, and on two counts. First, he says that the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Read More ›

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Date
January 13, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

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altruism, ants, Darwinism, Determinism, Evolution, evolution of altruism, gene for love, genetic determinism, genetic propensities, genetic reductionism, green beards, group selection, Hamilton’s rule, heroism, honey bees, human dignity, human exceptionalism, human uniqueness, Inheritance, kin selection, love, Morality, Natural Selection, Neo-Darwinism, non-kin altruism, rationality, red queens, reductionism, reductionist philosophy, reductionists, scientific materialists, self-defeating arguments, self-sacrifice, self-sacrificial love, Titanic, W.D. Hamilton, watchman crows}

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

_{January 13, 2021

Evolution}

On today’s ID the Future, host Andrew McDiarmid presents an Evolution News essay, “How to Destroy Love with Darwinism.” Altruism as defined by evolutionists means “behavior by an animal that may be to its disadvantage but that benefits others of its kind.” It’s not an easy fit with Darwinism, since Darwinian evolution is all about passing your favored genes onto your offspring. How can a creature do that if she gives her life for another, particularly when it’s not even her own children, and before she has produced any offspring? Such individuals fail to pass on their own genes — a seeming conundrum for Darwinism. Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 20, 2020

Categorized
Ethics

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__repost, Animal Rights, animal standing, Bioethics, Cass R. Sunstein, cruelty to animals, Declaration of Independence, human duty, human exceptionalism, human rights, Humane Society of the United States, Lawrence Tribe, nature rights, Nonhuman Rights Project, nonpersons, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, persistent vegetative state, Personhood, personhood theory, PETA, plant rights, reductionism, Stephen M.. Wise, Switzerland, The War on Humans, unalienable rights}

Let’s Champion Human Exceptionalism, Pt. 3

_{Wesley J. Smith

November 20, 2020

Ethics}

On this classic ID the Future, hear more from bioethicist Wesley J. Smith about The War on Humans. In this episode of the series, hear about the legal movement to establish legal rights for animals, and even plants. Smith examines the meaning of the term “personhood” and its implications for human rights.

An old man shakes hands with an opponent in a game of chess, he lost and acknowledges it.

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 21, 2020

Categorized
Evolution

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Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Evolution, fine-tuning, human exceptionalism, methodological materialism, methodological naturalism, Natural Selection, Natural Theology, Privileged Planet, science and religion, teleology, Theism, Theory of Evolution, Tom Wolfe, World of Life}

Alfred Russel Wallace and His Friendly Battle with Darwin

_{Michael Flannery

October 21, 2020

Evolution}

On this ID the Future, science historian Michael Flannery continues discussing his newly updated Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russel Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Wallace was co-founder with Charles Darwin of the theory of evolution by random variation and natural selection, but unlike Darwin he saw teleology or purpose as essential to life’s history, and a teleological view as essential to the life sciences. According to Flannery, Wallace’s views on the nature of the cell, the special attributes of humans, the irreducible nature of life, and the fine tuning of the universe hold up well today. He and Darwin disagreed on much of this, yet they maintained mutual respect. In this, Flannery says, the two are a great model Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
October 14, 2020

Categorized
Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropocentrism, BioLogos, Charles Darwin, Darwin Devolves, Darwinian theism, Darwinian theists, Darwinism, Deborah Haarsma, Edinburgh University, Edmund Grant, Evolution, evolutionary theory, Francis Collins, freethinkers, HMS Beagle, human exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, intelligent evolution, Janet Brown, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, Michael Behe, mind/body, philosophical materialism, Plinian Society, Theism, theistic evolution, Theory of Evolution, Tom Wolfe, William Dembski, World of Life}

Michael Flannery on the Origin of Darwin’s Worldview

_{Michael Flannery

October 14, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design}

On this episode of ID the Future, science historian and host Michael Keas talks with fellow science historian Michael Flannery about the newly updated book Intelligent Evolution: How Alfred Russell Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwin. Flannery tells of Darwin’s involvement in the Plinian Society, a “freethinkers” group at Edinburgh University where he studied medicine as a teenager. It was there that he first encountered radical philosophical materialism, the worldview that laid the philosophical foundation for his work in evolution. Flannery also speaks of Alfred Russel Wallace’s “intelligent evolution” and how it differs from Darwinism and from today’s theistic evolution — what Flannery prefers to call “Darwinian theism.”

Face made of shiny metal cubes with clouds in background.3d render

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Author
John Lennox

Date
July 29, 2020

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Science

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__edited, artificial intelligence (AI), augmentation, C.S. Lewis, Dan Brown, Frankenstein, genetic modification, human exceptionalism, image of God, imago dei, Jordan Peterson, Mary Shelley, Max Tegmark, Prometheus, science fiction, superintelligence, The Abolition of Man, transhumanism}

John Lennox Talks AI, SciFi, Transhumanism and the Image of God

_{John Lennox

July 29, 2020

Science}

On this episode of ID the Future, host Robert Marks continues his conversation with Oxford University mathematician John Lennox about Lennox’s new book 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Lennox reviews mythology and science fiction writing stretching from the ancient poet Hesiod to the novelist Dan Brown and MIT physicist Max Tegmark. He says that artificial intelligence (AI) predictions down through the ages are all heavily dependent on theological and philosophical presuppositions. He and Marks also discuss AI’s cousin, transhumanism, its surprising history, and its potentially very dark future, including the risk of what C.S. Lewis called “the abolition of man.”