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Richard Weikart: Promoting Life in a Culture of Death

_{Richard Weikart
October 31, 2024}

The urge to help people kill themselves has intensified in recent decades, even to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death. How did we reach this place? On this ID The Future, historian and author Dr. Richard Weikart joins veteran radio and podcast host Dr. Jerry Newcombe to discuss how … » Go

Richard Weikart Reads From His New Book Unnatural Death

_{Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024}

On this episode, Dr. Richard Weikart reads selections from his new book Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing. Dr. Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History at California State University Stanislaus and a Senior Fellow with the Discovery Institute’s Center for Science & … » Go

Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing – An Interview with Dr. Richard Weikart

_{Richard Weikart
August 7, 2024}

If we believe there is no qualitative distinction between animals and humans, are we more likely to protect human life or devalue it? On this episode of ID The Future, host Eric Anderson talks to historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his latest book, Unnatural Death: Medicine’s Descent From … » Go

Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

_{Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024}

Unnatural Death

_{Richard Weikart
August 5, 2024}

In this wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide, historian Richard Weikart takes us from the ancient Jews, Greeks, and Romans to the contemporary scene — where the urge to help people kill themselves has intensified, even to the point of pushing the reluctant towards death. How … » Go

Darwinian Racism vs. Evolutionary Ethics that Devalue All Men Equally

_{Richard Weikart
June 23, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future again features Darwinian Racism author and historian Richard Weikart and radio host Hank Hanegraaff exploring the pernicious impact Charles Darwin and Darwinism have had on modern ethics. Ideas laid out in Darwin’s The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man fueled … » Go

Richard Weikart and Hank Hanegraaff Talk Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart
June 20, 2022}

On today’s ID the Future, radio host Hank Hanegraaff interviews historian and Center for Science and Culture senior fellow Richard Weikart about his book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. The two look at how Darwinism fueled scientific racism and … » Go

Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart
March 22, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners a lively conversation between radio host and bestselling author Eric Metaxas and historian Richard Weikart about Weikart’s new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. … » Go

Darwinian Racism Webinar, Pt. 2

_{Richard Weikart
February 21, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future features the second half of a recent webinar spotlighting historian Richard Weikart and his new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Here Weikart fields questions from the webinar audience. … » Go

Darwinian Racism: The Author Webinar, Pt. 1

_{Richard Weikart and John G. West
February 9, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future is part one of a recent webinar featuring Darwinian Racism author and noted historian Richard Weikart, discussing his new book with webinar host and Center for Science and Culture managing director John West. … » Go

The Dangers of Totalitarian Science, Pt. 1

_{John G. West and Richard Weikart
February 4, 2022}

On this ID the Future from the vault we hear from Richard Weikart, author of the new book Darwinian Racism, and John West, director of the award-winning hit documentary Human Zoos. … » Go

Nazi Racism: Historian Richard Weikart Answers Questions

_{Richard Weikart
February 3, 2022}

What is the historical connection between Nazi racism and Darwinian evolution? Historian Richard Weikart explores the ideological origins of Nazi racism and its links to social Darwinism as he answers questions submitted from viewers around the world about his new book Darwinian Racism: How … » Go

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Evolution News

Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

_{Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024}

James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. … » Go

Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

_{Richard Weikart
December 12, 2024}

Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events. … » Go

A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory

_{Richard Weikart
December 11, 2024}

Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods. … » Go

The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

_{Richard Weikart
September 9, 2024}

He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. … » Go

Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

_{Richard Weikart
August 26, 2024}

One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. … » Go

Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

_{Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024}

Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. … » Go

Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

_{Richard Weikart
August 12, 2024}

History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. … » Go

Linking Darwin Skepticism with Anti-Communism, Historian Offers a Misguided Attack

_{Richard Weikart
June 3, 2022}

Weinberg’s evidence that Discovery Institute uses intelligent design to bash communism is completely lacking. … » Go

Do Darwin Critics Reject Evolution Because They’re Anti-Communists? Carl Weinberg Says Yes

_{Richard Weikart
June 2, 2022}

In a couple of cases, Weinberg goes beyond the pale, making accusations that are bizarre and even slanderous. … » Go

Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

_{Richard Weikart
June 1, 2022}

Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. … » Go

Anti-Racists Often Ignore This Non-Religious Source of Racism

_{Richard Weikart
May 10, 2022}

Many white nationalists claim that Darwinism directly supports their ideology, because they think that races have evolved to different levels. … » Go

Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

_{Richard Weikart
April 15, 2022}

This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. … » Go

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