Tag: Martin Luther King Jr.
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.
Martin Luther King on the Primacy of Idea over Material
It’s a necessary effort to stop oneself from longing for the great men and women of the past, even just the past century.
Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
I have no idea what King would have thought of the modern theory of intelligent design, but many of the ideas he expressed are certainly friendly to ID.
Racism, Evolution, and Human Exceptionalism
Certain threads in the events of recent months suggest the hand of a skilled novelist.
Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism
Dr. King accepted the animal ancestry of humans as taught by Darwinian evolution, but he spoke forcefully against the idea that we are the products of a blind material process.