Richard Weikart Reviews New Book on Social Darwinism

Episode 1447 April 28, 2021 00:17:03
Richard Weikart Reviews New Book on Social Darwinism
Intelligent Design the Future
Richard Weikart Reviews New Book on Social Darwinism

Apr 28 2021 | 00:17:03

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Show Notes

In today’s ID the Future historian Richard Weikart (Cal State Stanislaus) dissects a new Cambridge University Press book on social Darwinism by Jeffrey O’Connell and Michael Ruse. Weikart, author of Hitler’s Ethic, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Religion, and The Death of Humanity,* says that a major shortcoming of the new book is the authors’ attempt to put as much distance as possible between Darwin and eugenics thinking, and between Darwin and Hitler. The new book paints Darwin follower Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and posits that Darwin and Darwinism had little or no influence on Hitler’s warped Read More ›

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