Jennifer Rubin, blogging at the Washington Post, has this to say about President Obama's use of the term "thinly veiled social Darwinism" to describe Paul Ryan's budget: "Let's be clear about two ...
To the surprise of no one, the New York Times hailed the “thunderclap of a speech” in an editorial titled “Calling Radicalism by Its Name.” But Social Darwinism has been thick in the air of late ...
The word Darwinism has become a synecdoche for all the mechanisms implied by the Malthusian concept of “survival of the fittest” — the notion that the strongest members of a system survive to ...
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Theoria: An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, SEGUNDA EPOCA, Vol. 18, No. 3(48) (Septiembre 2003), pp. 259-272 (14 pages) The so-called evolutionary social sciences ...
In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin wrote: “This whole volume is one long argument.” Science educators should follow that line of thinking in teaching the theory of evolution, says John Angus ...
Yet modern biology has revealed that cells are preternaturally sophisticated assemblages — literally automated, miniaturized factories. How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy ...
When it comes to our physical world, scientific research indicates that size really does matter. While “big” objects, anything from a grain of sand to a galaxy, abide by one set of rules — classical ...