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Join John West, George Gilder in Las Vegas for a Discussion of Biology, Racism, and Militarism

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FreedomFest is a libertarian-themed confab each year that draws a huge following — in 2014, there were 2500 participants. This year, Discovery Institute co-founder George Gilder and Center for Science & Culture associate director John West will be on hand for a screening and discussion of the award-winning documentary film The Biology of the Second Reich: Social Darwinism and the Origins of World War I, which Dr. West wrote and directed.
The venue is the Planet Hollywood Resort. The screening will take place in the resort’s (piquantly named) Sin City Theater at 10 AM, this coming Friday, July 10.
Winner of the “Best Documentary Short” award at the Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood, Winter 2015, the film highlights the research of historian Richard Weikart, demonstrating that even before the rise of Nazism, Darwinian biology was fueling brutal racism, colonialism, and warmongering in Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany.
Why are libertarians interested? Because attempts to grab our freedom and turn human beings into animal-like slaves and servants always seem to call for some kind of reasonable-sounding cover story or rationale. Darwinian evolutionary thinking has served as such a rationale repeatedly over the course of the theory’s relatively brief history.
See here for a full schedule of FreedomFest. Here’s how to register. Interestingly, we see that presidential hopefuls Marco Rubio and Donald Trump will also be speaking at FreedomFest.
Please join us in Las Vegas for what promises to be a fascinating — and controversial — conversation with Gilder and West. Oh, and you can see the trailer of the film here:

As we’ve often said, this dark history in itself obviously doesn’t invalidate evolutionary theory, but it does seem to justify taking a second look at the science underlying Darwinism. Neither science, nor religion, nor any other philosophy or idea should be exempt from scrutiny of the consequences it carries with it.
Image: Planet Hollywood Resort, by Kris Ziel (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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