Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause is “Historical Fiction”

Episode 1729 March 29, 2023 00:14:44
Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause is “Historical Fiction”
Intelligent Design the Future
Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause is “Historical Fiction”

Mar 29 2023 | 00:14:44

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Show Notes

On today’s ID the Future, science-and-religion scholar Robert Shedinger makes the case that a well-known biography of Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, is deeply misleading. Specifically, the book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments; and Shedinger says, not so fast.  He had spent considerable time reading Darwin’s correspondence and had seen no evidence of this thesis, so he reread Darwin’s Sacred Cause, this time tracking down all the key citations the book offered as evidence, and a pattern soon emerged. The sources the authors cite didn’t actually support their thesis. Some were totally irrelevant. Some were cited completely out of context. In other cases, the authors gave Read More ›

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