Darwinian Racism Then and Now

Intelligent Design the Future

Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture

Science, Philosophy, Astronomy, Society & Culture, Life Sciences

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🗓️ 3 October 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Today’s ID the Future spotlights Darwinian racism, past and present. In this first half of a panel discussion at the 2022 Center for Science and Culture Insider’s Briefing, Darwin Day in America author John West introduces the other panel members, teases an upcoming book, Darwin Comes to Africa, and discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, where the work of infamous Darwinian criminologist Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution and race are on dramatic display. Then historian Richard Weikart, author of Darwinian Racism, debunks the popular media claim that white nationalist racism in America is a Southern evangelical phenomenon. Weikart shows that the most prominent white nationalists show little if any interest in promoting Christianity, Read More ›

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0:00.0	ID the future
0:05.0	future a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Greetings I'm Tom Gilson. We all know that science has done the world enormous good.
0:18.0	Unfortunately, there's a whole range of ideas that have gained tremendous traction and advantage by hitching a ride along with science
0:26.4	in all that it has accomplished. And today on ID the future we'll hear about some of those ideas. It's the first part of two that
0:35.4	we'll present from a panel's discussion presented at an insider briefing given
0:41.0	to scientists, scholars, and supporters of the Discovery Institute's Center
0:45.6	for Science and Culture in August of 2022.
0:49.7	Our host is John West, who will both speak and then also introduce the second panelist, Dr. Richard
0:56.5	Weikart.
0:57.5	We've been focusing thus far today, at least, mainly on the science and some of the implications of it
1:06.1	positively for understanding our uniqueness and our capacities and just how miraculous frankly they are.
1:14.0	For this session we're going to go back to sort of the topic of well how does this impact the culture if science goes astray.
1:24.4	And because we're the Center for Science and culture.
1:27.4	So we're going to be dealing with some really,
1:31.0	in some sense, very practical and things that really impact the real world.
1:35.0	And there's long history here of science and interaction with culture and that struck me,
1:42.0	actually let me turn this on,
1:44.1	so it struck me just a few weeks ago
1:47.3	when my wife and I had the opportunity
1:49.1	to visit Turin Italy where
1:52.3	Palantologist Gunter Beckley and I were speaking at the public launch of the
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