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Allison Hopper

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Denyse O'Leary
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July 13, 2021
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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At Evolution News and Science Today: The casual racism of Charles Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
Shedinger calls Allison Hopper’s piece in Scientific American, “startlingly vacuous,” which raises — once again — the question of why on earth the mag published it. It’s not as if there is no scholarship on the topic of Darwin and racism. Did the editors not want to address that scholarship? Well, we can’t read minds but we can make some reasonable guesses. How about: Create a big uproar and hope everyone will focus on that and not on the topic at hand? Shedinger also notes perceptively, “One does not become racist because of the view one holds on human origins. One becomes racist for other complex reasons and then reads that racism back into whatever view on human origins you hold.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 13, 2021
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Creationism, Intelligent Design, Racism, Religion
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At PJ Media: A response to religious claims made in Scientific American’s “denial of evolution is white supremacy” piece

Denyse O'Leary
July 13, 2021
Creationism, Intelligent Design, Racism, Religion
Bolyard: “I’m not here to debate the hows and whys of creationism. I’ll point you to Answers in Genesis for that. But I want to point out a couple of shameless strawmen in Hopper’s piece that discredit everything else she writes in this piece.” Of course. Hopper was almost certainly making it up as she went along, trusting that few readers had read or spent much time on the relevant literature. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 11, 2021
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Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Darwinian biologist Jerry Coyne speaks out on a SciAm op-ed’s claims that denial of evolution stems from white supremacy

Denyse O'Leary
July 11, 2021
Creationism, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
It seems obvious, on reflection, that Hopper’s piece is a disastrously clumsy effort on the part of Scientific American to get Woke. Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne thinks the mag is not just circling the drain but “approaching the drainhole.” To the extent that the editors couldn’t find someone who at least gets basic facts right, he has a point. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 8, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Racism
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At Scientific American: “Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy”

Denyse O'Leary
July 8, 2021
Intelligent Design, Racism
Wow. Has the Darwin lobby hired itself a PR firm that recommended getting someone on board to accuse everyone who doubts Darwin of being a “white supremacist”? Quite simply, Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man is surely by far the most racist iconic document ever to be lauded by all the Right People! And getting someone to holler about “white supremacy” among Darwin doubters is, ahem, just a cheap shot, not a response to the stark raving racism in print of the actual document. Guys, try another one. Read More ›