Tag: Darwinism
Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism
The outlook of Hitler, the Nazis, and contemporary white nationalists have been significantly shaped by Darwinism.
As Many Opinions as There Are Men?
The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree.
Redwoods, Grasshoppers: New Designs in Well-Studied Species
If redwoods are a byword for great stature, grasshoppers represent the opposite. And what insect could be more common or familiar?
David Berlinski on Architectural Nihilism, Human Nature and the Holocaust, and Emotivism
We live in intellectually mediocre times, when commitment to true debate has been replaced by a desire to stifle heterodox thought.
Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma
A colleague remarked to me (in an uncharacteristically unscholarly disclosure) that he could not share my interest in “all this old 19th-century stuff.”