Dr. Wiker, EWTN, & Darwin
Dr. Wiker is on EWTN right now (you know that guy who left TAC before we ever got there). He sounds like all the other Tutors, "All the moderns are evil, Darwin is evil". Now I do like EWTN, and I like Dr. Wiker (at least what of his articles I have read), but when they start making specious arguments against may man Chuck I get a little peeved. After all I cannot understand how anyone can have a liberal education, or be an ex-Tutor, and be anti-Darwin. There are three great Philosophers that we read at TAC, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Darwin. Further, they are blaming the Rawanda Genocide on Darwin, and I would like to point out that they haven't yet mentioned that Rawanda is 80% Catholic.
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Hi,
Found your site through a vanity technorati search. Thanks for the link!
Most critiques of Darwin are incompetent, but I think a strong case can be made that Darwin was the original social darwinist. I don't know why you think of him as a philosopher--"natural philosopher," maybe--but his influential attempts to draw a few moral lessons and political prescriptions from biological observation are pretty cracked, definitely racialist and possibly libertine in intention and result.
One of my former profs, Edward T. Oakes, has an upcoming review in First Things of the sensationalistically titled history "From Darwin to Hitler" that covers this. In case you haven't come across it, Oakes also laid a smackdown on the Intelligent Design movement in First Things a few years ago before the contemporary brouhaha.
I agree about your reading of Darwin, and I was just being polemical to get so ID friends mad.
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