Weikart on Racism, Darwinism and Christianity

Episode 1254 September 23, 2019 00:14:04
Weikart on Racism, Darwinism and Christianity
Intelligent Design the Future
Weikart on Racism, Darwinism and Christianity

Sep 23 2019 | 00:14:04

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Cal State history professor Richard Weikart, author of The Death of Humanity and the Case for Life, talks racism past and present, in both Christian and “scientific” secular history.

Racism can be found in both arenas, Weikart notes, but Charles Darwin made racial variation — and the claim that certain races were inferior — a key plank in his case for evolution by random variation and natural selection. Weikart goes on to suggest that materialistic Darwinism provides precious little to ground the idea of universal human dignity and rights, ideas with a strong grounding in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

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