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Francis Galton

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Denyse O'Leary
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March 10, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
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Nature tut tuts on eugenics, forgets Francis Galton, Darwin’s cousin

Denyse O'Leary
March 10, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Racism
In our current cultural climate, it is very difficult to have a useful discussion of the contribution Darwinism made to modern racism, as evidenced by racist yammer today featuring “natural selection.” To recap, Darwinism made racism “scientific.” That was much easier to sell to the educated classes in the nineteenth century than the idea that some people’s papa was a god and the rest of us were just bricks. And many committed and devoted Darwinists believed in and co-operated with the new, “scientific” racism. Until all that can be fully and freely acknowledged, the matter can never be laid to rest. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 4, 2019
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Eugenics and the “bad guy” in everyone but Darwin

Denyse O'Leary
October 4, 2019
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design
This article about Francis Galton, Charles Darwin’s cousin, a key figure in the eugenics movement, manages to avoid mentioning Darwin, even though he was clearly among those Victorians for whom racism was a normal point of view. Read More ›