What is it in us that likes to poke at the monkey in the cage? Insecurity, playfulness, original sin? The monkey I love to torment is the evolutionary believer – why? Because I once was one. As a trained Biochemist, I found creationists maddeningly ignorant – until I started reading up on the facts (or lack thereof) and realized that it was *I* who had been brainwashed (See On Leaving Evolution and Conned by Evolution or even Mass Delusion)
Books like this new one, The Darwin Myth: The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin, are aimed squarely at uncritical believers, evaluating Darwinism not only from the scientific perspective, but the sociological and historical as well. Here’s a little of the description from the publishers:
In The Darwin Myth, Wiker reveals:
- Why Darwin didn’t “discover” evolution
- How Darwin set out to create a godless version of evolution
- Why many of his best friends and allies criticized Darwin’s theory, and how he never refuted their objections
- How “social Darwinism” is not a misapplication of Darwinism, but is Darwinism
- Why Darwin’s theory supported natural slavery, an institution he abhorred
- How much of what we know about Darwin comes from his Autobiography–which at key points is downright misleading
- How Darwin helped make ideological atheism the battle cry of science
Instructive and illuminating, The Darwin Myth casts aside
Darwinism’s politically correct veneer and offers a critical,
scientific analysis of Darwin’s life and his history-changing theory.