Tag: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Scott Turner Describes the Largely Forgotten History of Evolutionary Theory
The fatal flaw with metaphysical vitalism was that it invariably led to circular reasoning.
Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand
“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.”
These Creatures Would Give Darwin Shivers
Darwin thought everything evolved from a simple cell by mindless chance processes. The animals don’t know that.
Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism
The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers.
A.N. Wilson Is Right: “Darwin Was Wrong”
I enjoyed Wilson’s book, and I learned a lot from it. But this biography’s most interesting feature is its firm rejection of Darwin’s theory of evolution.