Category: Culture & Ethics
Galton on Darwin and Eugenics
I’ve read many defenders of Charles Darwin who try to distance him from the eugenics movement.
An Acceptable “Intelligent Design”
University of Washington physicists have set out a path to scientifically testing whether the universe is intelligently designed.
Darwinism and Stalinism, Cont.
In the strange netherworld of Internet Darwinists, the blogger Sensuous Curmudgeon wins a prize for strained humor and a unique adenoidal shrieking quality.
Darwinism and Stalinism
Biographically speaking, reading Darwin’s Origin was seminal in Stalin’s own march toward a godless communism.
Let’s Not Be So Quick to Dismiss Paul Johnson’s Darwin
His take on Darwin’s unwitting contribution to 20th-century genocide and mass murder (though certainly unintended) is more right than wrong.