Tag: Francis Galton
Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month
Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no.
Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism
Darwin didn’t merely predict racial genocide; he thought it would advance human evolution.
C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction
Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no.
The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman
In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race.
Himmelfarb and Her Haters
What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book?