Tag: Ernst Haeckel
Life’s History and the “Ode to Joy”
The history of life can perhaps be likened to a collection of different musical themes. In Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, the four beginning notes are the theme.
Sagan’s “Star Stuff” and the Suicide Pod
If life is nothing more than material or “stuff,” why not allow people to recycle themselves when they feel their useful lifespan has come to an end?
Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics
One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton.
West, Metaxas: Face It, Darwinian Theory Is Itself Racist
This malign record is no mere inexplicable aberration from an otherwise innocent scientific theory. The legacy is not a mistake.
Return of the God Hypothesis in Poland
Has the God hypothesis indeed returned? When Darwin presented his theory, it seemed that science had thoroughly confirmed a complete naturalistic paradigm.