Bill Pratt | April 17, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt Moral skeptics frequently argue that evolution has tricked us into thinking that our moral judgments are based on mind-independent moral facts. Even though it seems like our moral judgments are examples of authentic reasoning, they are not. Joshua Greene is a typical voice of moral skepticism: Moral judgment is, for the most [...]
Bill Pratt | April 5, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In two previous blog posts (here and here), I have called attention to the fact that human beings universally take for granted that our moral judgments transcend time, place, and species. We judge certain actions to be morally right or wrong regardless of when these actions occurred, where they occurred, and [...]
Bill Pratt | March 20, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In parts 1 and 2, we looked at philosopher David Stove’s claims that Darwinism was coopted by both the National Socialists and the Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, both of whom brought mass murder to a scale the world had never before seen. But what of these [...]
Bill Pratt | March 18, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 philosopher David Stove reminded us what countless other historians have already noted, that the National Socialists drew justification of their policies from Darwin’s ideas. Stove then reminded us that Marxist writers also drew inspiration from Darwin. Not content to merely state the connection, Stove presents evidence: The reader [...]
Bill Pratt | March 15, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt National Socialism (Nazism) and Marxism are, for the most part, dead and buried as movements. However, it is incumbent on us, the caretakers of the cemetery, to remind everyone of the past so that it won’t be repeated. Perhaps you believe that we are just beating a dead horse by mentioning [...]
Bill Pratt | March 6, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 4, Darwin’s bulldog, T. H. Huxley, offered a couple of examples of natural selection at work in England. Philosopher David Stove, in his book Darwinian Fairytales, provides yet another example of Huxley’s attempt to show that men are competing to survive. A third attempt is this. Huxley implies that there [...]
Bill Pratt | March 4, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 3, Darwin’s bulldog, T. H. Huxley, offered the Cave Man explanation to solve the seemingly intractable problem of human beings not currently competing with each other in order to survive. Recall that David Stove, in his book, Darwinian Fairytales, recorded Huxley’s Cave Man gambit: But in those distant times, [...]
Bill Pratt | March 1, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In parts 1 and 2, we looked at agnostic philosopher David Stove’s explanation of “Darwinism’s Dilemma” in his book Darwinian Fairytales: If Darwin’s theory of evolution were true, there would be in every species a constant and ruthless competition to survive: a competition in which only a few in any generation can [...]
Bill Pratt | February 27, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1, we looked at agnostic philosopher David Stove’s explanation of “Darwinism’s Dilemma” in his book Darwinian Fairytales: If Darwin’s theory of evolution were true, there would be in every species a constant and ruthless competition to survive: a competition in which only a few in any generation can be winners. [...]
Bill Pratt | February 25, 2013
Post Author: Bill Pratt Agnostic philosopher David Stove opens his book Darwinian Fairytales with the following: If Darwin’s theory of evolution were true, there would be in every species a constant and ruthless competition to survive: a competition in which only a few in any generation can be winners. But it is perfectly obvious that [...]
