Tag: Africans
Listen: Bought in a Slave Auction, Displayed as Evolutionary “Science”
The association with “mainstream science” is often weaponized as a way of overawing us and persuading us to stop expecting answers to hard questions.
Unguided Darwinian Mechanism’s “Self-Limiting” Nature Is What Dooms It
Evolution is all, or almost all, evolution by destruction. Michael Behe gives the analogy of a bridge separating you from an invading group of enemies.
On Human and Animal Rights, the Twisted Course of Evolutionary “Philosophy”
Wesley Smith commented earlier on the struggle, via litigation by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NRP), to grant human-like “rights” to an elephant in the Bronx Zoo.
Update: Still No Evolutionary Explanation for Human Language
“The case that human language develops step by step through natural selection is weakened by the fact that no single language gene has ever been discovered.”
In Evolutionary Thinking, Roseanne Barr’s Offensive Tweet Has a Long History
Some voices, if not necessarily thoughtful or serious ones, have recognized this, while at the same time missing the point.