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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Darwinism \Dar"win*ism\, n. (Biol.) The theory or doctrines put forth by Darwin. See above. --Huxley.
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Darwinism is a theory of biological evolution developed by the English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1864, from Charles Darwin (1809-1882), whose major works were "The Origin of Species" (1859) and "The Descent of Man" (1871), + -ism .
Usage examples of darwinism.
But if it is inutile, it is not Darwinian, for Darwinism says evolution is utilitarian.
The distinction between Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism is generally believed to lie in the adoption of a theory of natural selection by the younger Darwin and its non-adoption by the elder.
Darwinism of eighty years ago and the Darwinism of to-day becomes immediately apparent, and it also becomes apparent, how important and interesting is the issue which is raised between them.
I may predict with some certainty that before long we shall find the original Darwinism of Dr.
But since the rediscovery of the gene, in 1900, and the flowering of the technology based on it, Darwinism has triumphed.
University of Jena, took to social Darwinism as if it were second nature.
In Austria, more than anywhere else in Europe, social Darwinism did not stop at theory.
Social Darwinism was, not unnaturally, compared with Marxism and not only in the minds of Russian intellectuals.
As a matter of faith, liberals believe: Darwinism is a fact, people are born gay, child-molesters can be rehabilitated, recycling is a virtue, and chastity is not.
William Provine, an evolutionary biologist at Cornell University, calls Darwinism the greatest engine of atheism devised by man.
But the value of Darwinism for atheists is that it is the only way they can explain why we are here.
They cling to Darwinism even as the contrary evidence accumulates, because it allows them to ignore God.
Luckily, Darwinism is a nondisprovable pseudoscience, otherwise, it might be difficult to explain how religion can be an unfit mutation and, at the same time, has won the battle of survival.
Darwinism on Hitler, as well as the pervasiveness of Darwinism among the German intellectual class preceding the rise of Nazi Germany, would merit a small mention in college classrooms.
As we are not writing a teleological argument, but only producing evidence that Darwinism excludes teleology, we cannot follow the details which prove that the wing of the gannet or swift is almost as wonderful and beautiful a specimen of contrivance as the eye of the eagle.