Category: Culture & Ethics
Samuel Butler’s Anti-Evolutionist Satire
An email correspondent laments that contemporary ID movement lacks humor.
Weikart in the Baltimore Sun: Ben Carson’s “Thought Crime”
“Since I am a historian who has studied and published on the history of evolutionary ethics, I was rather surprised by the Emory faculty’s consternation over Dr. Carson’s belief that evolution undermines objective ethics and morality.”
At Emory University, Consternation over Ben Carson, Evolution, and Morality
The idea that evolution undermines objective moral standards is hardly a recent discovery of sociobiology.
Unmasking Media Matters
Hostility to familiar bogeyman — corporations, the “wealthy,” and Christianity — has driven this influential activist group since it was launched.
Music under Darwinism
“If music is an adaptation, did it really evolve to promote mating success as Darwin thought?”