Author: Richard Weikart
Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?
James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation.
Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?
Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events.
A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory
Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods.
The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview
He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value.
Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics
One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton.