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Darwin, Hitler, and the Modern Evaluation of Human Life

Richard Weikart
June 27, 2019
Since the Enlightenment many secular ideologies have contributed to the devaluing of human life by arguing that human life is the product of chance processes. This has led to the erosion of the Judeo-Christian sanctity-of-life ethic, spawning the present “culture of death,” where many … » Go
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Richard Weikart on Hitler's Religion

Richard Weikart
September 13, 2018
Adolf Hitler is long dead. Nevertheless, his name is still invoked every day as a rhetorical smear. By drawing usually dubious connections to Hitler and the Holocaust, partisans charge their opponents with guilt by association. This unfortunate cultural twitch has even been canonized as … » Go
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The Death of Humanity and The Case for Life

Richard Weikart
April 10, 2017
Is human life valuable, or are we just a cosmic accident? Does human life have any overarching purpose or meaning, or are we a meaningless blob of chemicals? Drawing on extensive historical and contemporary sources, CSC Senior Fellow Dr. Richard Weikart argues that, since the Enlightenment in the … » Go
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Hitler's Religion

Richard Weikart
November 21, 2016
For a man whom history can never forget, Adolf Hitler remains a persistent mystery on one front — his religious faith. Atheists tend to insist Hitler was a devout Christian. Christians counter that he was an atheist. And still others suggest that he was a practicing member of the occult. … » Go
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2016 National Conference on Christian Apologetics

Richard Weikart
October 13, 2016
Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Richard Weikart is a featured speaker at this year’s National Conference on Christian Apologetics, hosted in Charlotte, NC, on October 13-15. Come hear Dr. Weikart cover topics addressed in his new book, The Death of Humanity: Are Humans Intrinsically Valuable … » Go
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The Biology of the Second Reich

Richard Weikart
August 13, 2014
This award-winning 14-minute documentary tells the little-known story of the influence of Social Darwinism on German militarism leading up to World War 1, including an exploration of the German military’s genocidal policies in Southwest Africa (modern Namibia). The video features the work of … » Go
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Ben Carson and the evolution-morality debate

Richard Weikart
May 13, 2012
Almost 500 Emory University faculty and students have expressed their dismay that their commencement speaker on Monday does not toe the ideological line when it comes to evolutionary biology. Yes — gasp — the renowned Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson does not believe in evolutionary … » Go
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Darwinists, Moral Relativism, and Hitler

Richard Weikart
December 7, 2009
The Darwin celebrations this year have reinforced my concern that Darwinism is not merely a scientific theory. For many Darwinists, it is much more than that. For some it is the basis for a secular worldview that not only rejects theism, but also promotes moral relativism. Those who doubt this … » Go
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Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress

Richard Weikart
September 1, 2009
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"Expelled" and the Darwinism-Nazi Connection: A Response to Jeff Schloss

Richard Weikart
August 7, 2008
In his thought-provoking review essay of “Expelled” Jeff Schloss repeatedly criticizes the film for oversimplifying complex issues.1 Concerning the claim in the movie that Darwinism had something to do with Nazism, he sensibly states, “This is far too serious an issue to be … » Go
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“Morality Pills”: Ethicist Calls for Drugs to Solve COVID Non-Compliance

Richard Weikart
August 14, 2020
In an article for The Conversation, ethics professor Parker Crutchfield proposes a solution for widespread opposition and/or non-compliance to government mandates dealing with COVID-19: give people chemicals, “morality pills,” to make them more cooperative. He observes: COVID-19 is a … » Go
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Darwinism, Jews, and White Nationalists

Richard Weikart
March 6, 2020
A right-wing Polish member of parliament, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, recently made waves with the astonishing claim that pogroms have been good for the Jewish people, allegedly because they acted as what biologists call “selective pressure” in the Darwinian struggle for existence. In common … » Go
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Why Michael Shermer’s “Case for Scientific Humanism” Fails

Richard Weikart
January 4, 2019
In his farewell article this month in Scientific American, long-time columnist Michael Shermer once again confuses science with atheism, and inexplicably claims that science can support humanism. He even uses the term “scientific humanism” to describe his position. Shermer tries to … » Go
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Darwinian Theory and Evolutionary Psychology — A Troubling Legacy

Richard Weikart
July 12, 2018
To an outsider, evolutionary psychology seems like a field riddled with fabrications of clever stories — some of them rather far-fetched — that try to explain human behavior as the product of evolutionary processes. According to evolutionary psychologists many human behaviors are hard-wired … » Go
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Evolutionary Psychology Grapples with Racism and Anti-Semitism

Richard Weikart
July 11, 2018
When I published my book From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (2004), I had no idea that white nationalism and neo-Nazism would become more fashionable in the coming years. At that time white nationalism was a fringe movement that one heard very little … » Go
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Why Social Science Does Not Need Evolutionary Theory

Richard Weikart
June 19, 2018
In an article for Nautilus, Cristine Legare explains “Why Social Science Needs Evolutionary Theory.” An associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, she laments that the social sciences are missing out, because they ignore the findings of evolutionary theory. She … » Go
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David Barash’s Shocking Suggestion

Richard Weikart
March 9, 2018
Wesley Smith has already noted emeritus psychology professor David Barash’s outrageous proposal in a new article for Nautilus, “It’s Time to Make Human-Chimp Hybrids,” based on a forthcoming book by Barash from Oxford University Press. As shocking as this proposal may be to many … » Go
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On the History of Darwinism, Scientific Racism, and Hitler, Is Steven Pinker Objective?

Richard Weikart
February 26, 2018
Editor’s note: See also, “Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the ‘War on Science,’” by Professor Weikart. In his zeal to defend science from the onslaught of those allegedly waging a “war on science” Steven Pinker (in an article in the Chronicle of … » Go
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Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

Richard Weikart
February 24, 2018
In a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, which was taken from his new book, Enlightenment Now, Harvard University psychology professor Steven Pinker challenges the “war on science,” which he blames on religious fundamentalists, right-wing politicians, and postmodernists. … » Go
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Frankenstein 200 Years Later: Have We Heeded the Warning?

Richard Weikart
January 30, 2018
Two hundred years ago this month Mary Shelley published her famous novel, Frankenstein. It warned against the possible horrors that could come about through our scientific hubris. In the novel the scientist Victor Frankenstein worked diligently two years to bring life to a dead body. He … » Go
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