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An Idea and Its Impact: Human Origins and Human Ethos
Darwinian advocates today adopt a winsome mask of liberalism. However, evolutionary theory has a dark history of justifying racism and genocide.
In a lecture on the social consequences of ideas about human origins, Discovery Institute’s John West reminds us that such thinking naturally impacts our culture’s ethos, the way we evaluate human dignity, purpose, and equality, which in turn can’t help but affect the way people treat each other.
This episode of ID the Future is Part 2 in a series of excerpts from Dr. West’s talk at a recent conference on “Science and Human Origins.” Download it by clicking here:
Find Part 1 here. You can’t, if you’re honest with yourself, just sweep such realities under the carpet, though Darwin apologists seek mightily to do so.
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