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Cecil the lion: should we care?

Cecil the lion: should we care?

Global outrage over a hunter killing an African lion highlights the contradiction between care and concern for the treatment of animals and blind, pitiless evolution.
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15 Sep, 2015
Darwin’s mentors

Darwin’s mentors

How clergymen unwittingly helped pave the way for evolution’s acceptance
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25 Jul, 2012
Darwin, slavery, and abolition

Darwin, slavery, and abolition

Did Darwin’s abhorrence of slavery have anything to do with his theory of evolution?
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23 Jul, 2012
Darwin and the Fuegians

Darwin and the Fuegians

Darwin used the indigenous people of Tierra del Fuego to illustrate his ideas about human evolution. How could he have been so wrong?
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11 Jul, 2012
Darwinism: it was all in the family

Darwinism: it was all in the family

Darwinism began not with Charles but with his grandfather Erasmus.
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01 Feb, 2012
Darwinism and World War One

Darwinism and World War One

While the Second World War is more obviously connected to Darwinism, it also played an important role in the first.
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25 Apr, 2011
Darwin’s Lamarckism vindicated?

Darwin’s Lamarckism vindicated?

Darwin later rejected pure ‘Darwinism’ for Larmarkism and now discoveries in epigenetics suggest that inheritance of acquired characteristics does occur.
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01 Mar, 2011
NCSE Gives ‘Favorable’ Review of The Voyage the Shook the World

NCSE Gives ‘Favorable’ Review of The Voyage the Shook the World

Anti-creationists praise aspects of Darwin: the Voyage, but have to milk some criticisms, which turn out to be rather trivial or unjustifiable.
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08 Feb, 2011
A river like no other

A river like no other

On Charles Darwin’s Beagle voyage, his geological observations using Charles Lyell’s book reinforced his belief in long ages, and underpinned his later evolutionary ideas. But modern geology denies many of his interpretations.
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01 Mar, 2010
Darwin, Lyell and Origin of Species

Darwin, Lyell and Origin of Species

Charles Darwin
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05 Nov, 2009
The child is father of the man

The child is father of the man

The attitudes of the young Charles Darwin help us understand his later theorizing.
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29 Jul, 2009
Darwin’s finches

Darwin’s finches

Evidence supporting rapid post-Flood adaptation.
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13 May, 2009
Did Darwin recant?

Did Darwin recant?

An argument creationists should NOT use.
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15 Apr, 2009
Blast from the Past: Museum director Dr Johann Blasius v Darwin

Blast from the Past: Museum director Dr Johann Blasius v Darwin

Director of leading natural history museum in Darwin’s day, denounced Origin
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01 Apr, 2009
Darwin and eugenics

Darwin and eugenics

Darwin was indeed a ‘Social Darwinist’.
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18 Mar, 2009
Darwin’s slippery slide into unbelief

Darwin’s slippery slide into unbelief

Darwin’s slippery slide into unbelief.
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18 Feb, 2009