Tag: The Descent of Man
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.
The Joy of (Neanderthal) Cooking
The Darwinian account of the human race would be much easier to believe in good faith if scientists could point to a clearly inferior and clearly human being.
Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps
A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist.
Darwin’s Bluff — Continued
Recently, I turned up some later letters showing that Darwin’s bluff extended well beyond 1863.
Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error.