Darwin Day in America
Subtitle: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science
Edition: Paperback ed.
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Wilmington, DE
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781610171359
Description: At the dawn of the twentieth century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science― especially Darwinian biology―would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.

But the results have been disastrous, as Discovery Institute senior fellow John G. West demonstrates in this captivating book. Based on extensive archival research, Darwin Day in America shows how the ideology of scientism has corrupted American politics and culture. Scientific experts in thrall to the assumptions of philosophical materialism began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines.

The consequences have been far-reaching―and extend to the present, as West reveals in a brand-new chapter for the paperback on scientism in the Age of Obama.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: Wilmington, Delaware : ISI Books, 2007.
"Updated with a new chapter on the rise of "totalitarian science" - cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Origins of scientific materialism.; title: 1. Nothing buttery from atomism to the Enlightenment; title: 2. Darwin's revolution; title: Crime and punishment.; title: 3. Criminal science; title: 4. Crime as mental illness; title: 5. Turning punishment into treatment; title: Wealth and poverty.; title: 6. Law of the jungle; title: 7. Breeding our way out of poverty; title: 8. The science of business; title: 9. Building the world of tomorrow; title: Schools and scholars.; title: 10. Darwin Day in America; title: 11. Banned in Burlington; title: 12. Junk science in the bedroom; title: 13. Sex miseducation; title: Life and death.; title: 14. Redefining life; title: 15. Redefining death; title: Conclusion : The abolition of man; title: Afterword to the paperback edition : Scientism in the age of Obama and beyond