Terry Scambray: Opponents were mostly the unWoke—Catholics, anti-Darwinists, and such. (A review of The Guarded Gate.)
Tag: eugenics
When the Woke meet up with Darwin…
Eventually, the Woke had to discover that Darwin is not a co-belligerent. Will Darwinians become as unpopular as they made ID types?
Jerry Coyne: Darwinians do SO bash eugenics!
We accept that Coyne and his friends didn’t find Nicholas Wade’s views congenial. But wasn’t he one of the pop science gang? Could some Darwinians possibly shed some light on his retirement book party and then sudden submergence?
Richard Dawkins says eugenics works because he assumes we are just like animals
At one fell swoop, Dawkins exposes another frequent weakness of naturalist atheism: direct conflict with facts. Eugenics does not work for humans. Unlike animals, we make personal choices, which could be based on reason and free will or on the apparent lack thereof. And those choices confound the ambitions of others.
Surprisingly, a magazine provides truths about the Darwinian eugenics movement
In this 2016 article, the authors tell it like it happened but then the information always falls into a black hole. This got fished out again recently, however.
At Nature: An honest attempt to come to terms with Darwinism’s role in eugenics
With eugenics, as with racism, all critics want is an honest acknowledgment of the sources, not butt-covering bafflegab. It doesn’t matter now except for the butt-covering bafflegab.
Francis Galton (1822-1911), Darwin’s cousin, risks getting disappeared
We warned the Darwinians to take the racism and eugenics in their past seriously while there was time but they assumed that if they spoke in Darwin’s name, all would be forgiven.
PBS’s American Experience: The Eugenics Crusade
A friend writes to recommend it: American Experience: The Eugenics Crusade is one of the best documentaries I have ever seen and I have watched many hundreds of them. As the movie documents, it started with Darwin, then moved on to Galton who spent his life developing the science of eugenics, then the American eugenics Read More…
Why genetic determinism can’t simply be disproven
Reviewing behavioral geneticist Robert Plomin’s Blueprint: How DNA Makes Us Who We Are, a history of medicine prof writes, Crude hereditarianism often re-emerges after major advances in biological knowledge: Darwinism begat eugenics; Mendelism begat worse eugenics. The flowering of medical genetics in the 1950s led to the notorious, now-debunked idea that men with an extra Read More…
Paper: “Dangerous tendencies” of Catholic theistic evolutionist included support for “racist eugenic practices”
Abstract: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin loved the world, but, theologically and spiritually, he often tried to leave it behind. This essay shows that from the 1920s until his death in 1955, Teilhard de Chardin unequivocally supported racist eugenic practices, praised the possibilities of the Nazi experiments, and looked down upon those who he deemed “imperfect” Read More…