Yes, God. God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. This is episode 244.

Episode 244 of the plotcast.

I'm your host, Douglas Wilson.

Good to see you again.

Thanks for coming.

So the topic I wanted to talk about today was Darwinian racism, and I don't want to talk about the topic so much as talk

about my right to talk about the topic.

Many people think that if you say, well, you know, Darwinism is inherently racist and Darwin was a racist and all the early Darwinians were racists.

The answer is yes, but we repudiate that now.

Yes, we know better now.

Your argument is invalid.

And the issue is not, you know, you can rummage around in history and find people who were racist or had some other objectionable belief of theirs and then

associated it or tie it to some other belief that they had,

even if those two beliefs had nothing to do with each other.

Let's say a thinker 600 years ago believed that blacks were

inferior and he also believed that the that every this the stars and the planets the sun goes around the earth he was a he

was a geocentrist well his racism and his geocentrism are not really connected to each other.

They happen to occupy the same head, but there's no logical connection between the two.

The thing that I want to argue is that Darwinism, that you find the possibility of racial supremacy embedded in the theory itself.

So if, now, a consistent materialist who said, look, there is no such thing as evolutionary progress.

There's simply change. That person could be, is exempted from my criticism. But overwhelmingly, evolutionists talk about

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