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^{Richard Weikart and Michael Newton Keas
September 23, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

Richard Weikart on Darwinian Racism, Eugenics, and Slavery

_{Richard Weikart and Michael Newton Keas
September 23, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

The evil of racism was nothing new when Darwin and his evolutionary theory came on the scene, but according to Weikart, racist thinking, increased “by orders of magnitude” under the influence of Darwinism and evolutionary thinking, and became mainstream science. Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart and Michael Newton Keas
September 21, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

_{Richard Weikart and Michael Newton Keas
September 21, 2020
Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Intelligent Design the Future}

On this episode of ID the Future, historian and Cal State Stanislaus emeritus professor Richard Weikart speaks with host Michael Keas about the dark history of “scientific” racism. Read More ›

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^{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2020
Academic Freedom/Free Speech, Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Culture and Ethics, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design the Future, Science}

The Darwin-Fueled Racist Ideas of John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2020
Academic Freedom/Free Speech, Audio, Center for Science and Culture, Culture and Ethics, Education, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Intelligent Design the Future, Science}

On this episode of ID The Future from the vault, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow David Klinghoffer discusses the move by National Review editor Rich Lowry in 2012 to sever ties with two regular contributors, John Derbyshire and Robert Weissberg, after discovering their connections to racialist groups promoting race superiority, eugenics, and other morally repugnant ideas. Klinghoffer explains how Darwinian evolution has informed proponents of these ideas, and how important it is to identify and root out this kind of thinking before it has a chance to pollute respectable institutions and publications. As Klinghoffer makes clear, Darwinian ideas are hardly the only possible source of racist thinking, and of course racism long predates Charles Darwin. But Darwinism has proved fertile soil Read More ›