Tag: racism

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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 ›

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
February 16, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Alt Right, biological evolution, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, Darwinian biologists, Darwinism, David Livingstone, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, genocide, Herbert Spencer, human zoos, immigration policy, John G. West, living space, Natural Selection, Nazi Germany, Nazi physicians, Nazis, Nazism, Ota Benga, racial struggle, racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Scopes Trial, Social Darwinism, Stephen Pinker, sterilization, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, The Descent of Man, The Origin of Species, transhumanism, white nationalism, white nationalists, Whoopi Goldberg}

Darwinian Racism Webinar, Pt. 2

_{Richard Weikart

February 16, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future features the second half of a recent webinar spotlighting historian Richard Weikart and his new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Here Weikart fields questions from the webinar audience. Along the way Weikart touches on the connection between Darwinism and scientific racism, the objection that Darwinism, properly understood, doesn’t support scientific racism (much less Nazi racism), the racism inherent in Darwin’s own writings and those of prominent early Darwinists such as Ernst Haeckel, and more recent manifestations of Darwinian-inspired scientific racism both academic and populist. This and much more is explored in Weikart’s new book, available here. And for scientific reasons to reject Darwinism along with its racists implications, jump over Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 2, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Adrian Desmond, Aryan race, Charles Darwin, colonial slavery, Columbine High School, Columbine shooting, compulsory sterilization, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian Racism, Darwinism, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, Evolution, genocide, human evolution, James F. Moore, Natural Selection, Nazi Ministry of Education, Nazi SS, Nazis, Nazism, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, racial extermination, racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, struggle for existence, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, white nationalism}

New Book on How Darwinism Fueled Nazi Racism, White Nationalism

_{Andrew McDiarmid

February 2, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future features the newly released Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism by distinguished historian Richard Weikart. Here Andrew McDiarmid reads from the introduction and chapter one. Weikart begins his book by revisiting the harrowing Columbine High School mass shooting and underscoring the curious fact that one of the mass shooters, a white nationalist, claimed inspiration from not just Adolf Hitler but also Charles Darwin. Since Darwin was a peaceable Victorian English gentleman and naturalist, what possible connection could there be between Darwin on the one hand and Hitler and contemporary white nationalism on the other? Weikart shows that the connection is in fact quite clear from the writings of Hitler, Darwin himself, and Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
December 1, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Alas for Darwin, altruism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, compassion, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Daniel Dennett, David Stove, Denyse O’Leary, Eugenics, evolutionary psychology, force sterilization, Hank Campbell, heroism, Jerry Fodor, Michael Egnor, Natural Selection, Nazism, Neanderthal, origin of altruism, origin of the mind, panpsychism, racism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, selfish genes, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, survival of the fittest, The Descent of Man}

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Denyse O'Leary

December 1, 2021

Evolution}

On this ID the Future host Casey Luskin interviews science journalist Denyse O’Leary about her recent essay, “Is Evolutionary Psychology a Legitimate Way to Understand Our Humanity,” which appears in the new Harvest House anthology co-edited by Luskin, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. O’Leary, a science journalist and co-author of The Spiritual Brain, offers a withering critique of evolutionary psychology and traces its roots, beginning with The Descent of Man (1871), where Charles Darwin attributed various human behaviors to natural and sexual selection. That fed into what became known as social Darwinism, which fell out of favor after World War II thanks to Hitler and the Nazis’ application of social Darwinist ideas to defend Nordic superiority and genocide. 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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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 25, 2021

Tagged
African wildlife, Apartheid, buffalo, Casey Luskin, cheetahs, Cradle of Humankind, early plate tectonic history of South Africa, economic inequality, elephants, Geology, geology research, giraffes, Homo naledi, Johannesburg, Kaapvaal Craton, Kruger National Park, leopards, lions, Maropeng, Origins Museum, paleoanthropology, paleomagnetism, pangolins, PhD, Pilanesberg National Park, Pongola supergroup, porcupines, Python programming language, racism, rhinos, scientific research, South Africa, tectonic plates, tick bite fever, University of Johannesburg, University of Witwatersrand, western Australia, zebras}

Casey Luskin’s South Africa Adventures

_{Casey Luskin

January 25, 2021}

On this ID the Future, Rob Crowther interviews geologist Casey Luskin, recently back from getting his PhD in geology at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. Luskin, who formerly worked for Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and has just now rejoined the CSC, tells about his adventures doing field research in Africa, his side interest in human origins, his cross-cultural experiences, the amazing game parks, museums, and fossil sites he visited, and a little bit about his PhD, including some evidence suggesting that parts of Africa and Western Australia used to be connected.