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We explore heterodox thoughts about science, the academy, evolution.
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The Scopes Trial: 100 Years Later (opens the original)
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Last July was the centennial of the famous Scopes “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee. I went to Dayton to film a documentary about Dayton’s centennial observances of the trial that, for about ten days, made their small town the center of the world’s attention. The documentary, The Scopes Trial: 100 Years Later, has been out for about a year now, but it’s been posted on the National Association of Scholars’ YouTube channel. I’ve just reposted the documentary on my YouTube channel (@macrotermitem
12. Adaptation (opens the original)
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[Note: All the episodes of Evolution: A Heterodox View are now publicly available on my YouTube channel. The full playlist is here. They are no longer behind the udemy paywall.] The phenomenon of adaptation is central to the Darwinian idea. The whole notion of success in the struggle for existence, as Charles Darwin himself phrased it, depends upon functions suited to an environment. The tendency to aptitude, as the word adaptation literally means.<div class="subscr
11. The culture of Darwinism (opens the original)
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[All the videos in this developing series are available in my online course Evolution: A Heterodox View, on udemy.com ]One of the enduring tropes about Darwinism is that it is part of an ongoing war between science and religion.This metaphor has been creeping into our discourse about evolution, evolutionism, and Darwinism ever since the end of the 19th century.It’s a false myth which has persisted with extremely corrosive effects for our social discourse.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable
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