Tag: Robert Chambers
Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism
One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month.
When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science
Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science.
Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts
Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination.
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered
Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology.
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.