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A review materialist pop science writer Jonah Lehrer probably won’t like …
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Darwinian racism: The other writer who just got dumped from National Review
You want to start your baby out right … with a Darwinian pediatrician …
All the rage now, we hear. In “Darwin’s Pediatricians” (Evolution News & Views, April 19, 2012), Heather Zeiger observes, New Scientist has an interview with Dr. Paul Turke, a “Darwinian” pediatrician. But it turns out, he doesn’t do anything that’s different from physicians known to the UD News desk who are young Earth creationists or Muslims with no use whatever for Darwin. None of these goals requires a Darwinian perspective, and might actually be contrary to some interpretations of Darwinism. They are derived from the Hippocratic tradition, which pre-dates theistic religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. However, the Hippocratic tenets are compatible with Christianity and other theistic religions and have been adapted to those traditions. Dr. Turke can, of Read More ›