Category: Culture & Ethics
To Say the Least, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism
Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection.
When Darwinism Reigns, “The Pyramid Is the Point”
The Darwinian view encourages a way of interacting with others where the aim is to “humiliate [one’s] lesser brethren, just to remind them who’s boss.”
Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism
George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant.
Bright Idea: Put Scientists in Charge Instead?
Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians?
Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity
Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism.