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  • Apes or Angels?: Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race

Apes or Angels?: Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race Hardcover – March 13, 2007

by Cornelius J Troost (Author)
3.4 out of 5 stars (7)
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APES or ANGELS?: A Summary For many readers this book will be a mind-altering experience. It has a thesis that is a challenge to the conventional thinking of most Christians and their counterparts, the secular humanists. It offends both for very good reasons. It speaks the truth about Darwin's views on human origins and race. Contrary to the beliefs of most academicians and educated readers, Darwin had two dangerous ideas instead of one. Daniel Dennett was perfectly right about the first, which was the notion that natural selection operated in a way that precluded explanatory intrusions from outside the natural world. In other words, metaphysics has no place in biological explanation. Things spiritual, like vitalism and finalism, are simply inapplicable to evolutionary biology. The second idea is rarely mentioned in politically correct America- that the human races are different in sometimes significant ways. Indeed, inequality is a normal condition of nature. Darwin's clash with Christianity is winding down because modern science is a foundation of western culture and it fully accepts the truth of natural selection and the evolution of life(including man). It is ironic that as the struggle with Christianity declines, a new struggle emerges- the battle over racial differences. Liberalism evolved into radical egalitarianism as it swept over America, creating an authoritarian political correctness that contradicts our Constitution. Modern genetics now threatens the liberal myth of human equality. These Darwinian conflicts are playing out amidst our culture wars, a battle that could transform us into another Brazil. Radical egalitarianism and multiculturalism are ideologies aimed at dismantling our great Anglo-European tradition. Forces of erosion are at work which may make our nation's greatness a faint memory. The battle with creationism is essentially over in Europe and it is winding down in the U.S. Science always wins fights over the facts of nature! Eddies of ignorance will persist in American society where fundamentalism exists, but educated elites have long since agreed with Darwin. Liberal relativism erodes our standards of excellence and even undermines our Christian morality, a morality that seems closely connected to our moral instinct. With their power in academia liberals will submit to "white guilt" as they treat blacks as eternal victims, distorting reality to make outcomes equal. Darwin, however, may be vindicated on the matter of real racial differences, causing agony among idealistic liberals who must relinquish their lofty dreams. Scientific humanism has always touted critical thinking as a supreme goal of education, but it is threatened by the irrational side of liberalism that savors post-modern subjectivism. Today we see "diversity training" imposed on young people in a Stalinist manner. Propaganda and groupthink are current weapons of the PC martinets. In reading this survey of how Darwin came to his dangerous ideas, you may appreciate how important science and critical thinking are in a society gripped by wayward versions of liberalism. Both evolution by natural selection and racial differences are discussed in this book in order to illumine Darwin's two "dangerous" ideas-one that threatened Christianity and one that now threatens liberal humanism's egalitarian dream. Social scientists will be exposed as propagandists for radical egalitarianism rather than as true scientists. The movement to eliminate the word "race" is evidence of political motivation rather than scientific honesty. To examine the conflicts related to Darwinism the book includes a brief treatment of Darwin's life and works, the battle against creationism, the case against supernaturalism, a brief survey of human evolution, and a review of current issues bearing upon human nature and race.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Authorhouse
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 13, 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 244 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1425955215
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1425955212
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.19 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.4 out of 5 stars (7)

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  • Brent Damery
    4.0 out of 5 stars An Unbiased Perspective on Darwin's Legacy
    Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 2015
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    Troost does an excellent job of laying out a brief review of Darwin's research, resistance from the religious right, and downright censorship from the cultural left. As many in tune with the current problems facing Western nations today already know, the left exhibits, by far, the greatest threat to its continued existence. This book is well worth the read, although if one is seeking an in depth analysis of the bias and deception by cultural Marxists hell-bent on mandating a view of genetic equality between groups, he will be left wanting more. Nonetheless, Troost's is yet another voice of reason in the debate well worth hearing to all who are interested in this very important subject.
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  • David Wood
    5.0 out of 5 stars Apes or Angles?
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2008
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    The book is fascinating. It tells the truth about a massive cover up of essential facts about the scientific study of evolution and human intelligence, or "g". The PC, Diversity, and Multicultural movement, mostly university inspired, has organized to deny and muddle the reality of scientific truth about this vital subject. This is a vanity publication and the author needs some help from a good editor. However, this is a minor criticism. Also, this is definitely not a racist book, even though it will rile the PC folks to a fairly well. It is understandable that it had to be published as vanity publication ... what publishing house would risk the condemnation of printing it.
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  • Michael T Kennedy
    4.0 out of 5 stars The wars of evolution
    Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2008
    Format: Hardcover
    This little book is interesting although it could have used better editing. The theme is the evolution of man, which is continuing and which results in racial differences in intelligence. That fact caused the author great difficulty in finding a publisher and he was finally forced to use a vanity publisher, probably explaining the editing weaknesses. That said, it is worthwhile.

    He begins with the story of Charles Darwin, whose voyage on the Beagle, from 1832 to 1836, exposed him to the great variety of life on earth. His visit to the Galapagos Islands in 1835 provided the opportunity to see evolution of species as a result of the alteration of anatomy in birds, the Galapagos finches, filling ecological niches. He could see that, in an isolated setting, the islands separated from the mainland by great distance over water, a bird population could evolve from a single type of finch to a variety of types altered to utilize different food types. The finches, while otherwise similar, had developed beaks similar to other species of birds he had seen in Europe.

    From these observations, Darwin concluded that all forms of life had evolved from lower forms to more complex forms that could adapt to changes in the environment. This was unwelcome news in a Europe still convinced of the Biblical version of creation in six days. In the hundred years since Darwin's publication of Origin of Species and the Descent of Man, a war raged between the believers in a literal six day creation and those who adopted Darwin's theory of evolution. Modern biology has provided overwhelming evidence that Darwin was correct, even though Darwin himself knew no genetics. Molecular biology has provided the mechanisms and the result has been rapid progress in biology and medicine.

    The author also devotes quite a bit of the book to the cultural changes arising from the loss of religious scruples and the triumph of secular humanism. He deplores the modern hedonistic culture but his atheism makes it impossible to see the benefits of Jewish and Christian tradition in taming the natural aggressiveness of man and the nurturing of the family structure of society. Rodney Stark's "For the Glory of God: How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery" has pointed out that Christian doctrine, which proposed a rational God whose rules could be deciphered by man, encouraged the quest for knowledge and led ultimately to the Enlightenment. Another review has mentioned Chesterton's statement that "when a man stops believing in God, he doesn't believe in nothing, he believes in anything. " What we see today is the result of an atheism that has left humans, hard wired, I believe, for religion, believing in secular religions like anthropogenic global warming and environmentalism. Neither of those beliefs is harmful in itself; I believe that the planet has been warming since the end of the "Little Ice Age" about 1850, and that the environment must be protected from unnecessary destruction. What is harmful is the radical adoption of those belief systems resulting in a sort of unilateral disarmament in energy policy and an antipathy to the capitalist system that generates carbon dioxide. Children finish school uneducated in history or science but convinced of the evils of carbon dioxide and of the benefits of recycling, which often contributes little to the environment.

    In Chapter 5, he goes into the battles over creationism in schools in great detail. I was educated in Catholic schools in the 1940s and 50s and don't recall the subject of evolution being discussed. My high school did not offer a biology course so perhaps that avoided the topic most effectively! In college, I majored in engineering but later switched to pre-med and studied embryology without ever hearing any debate about evolution. It was assumed to be correct. One of my courses was in Comparative Anatomy, the very essence of evolution. It may well be that, in reaction to the post-1960s hedonism, fundamentalist Christianity began to push back and, unfortunately, adopted creationism as one aspect of that quest for moral certainty. I don't doubt his description of the recent struggles over Intelligent Design. I do, however, believe that the Catholic Church has avoided most of these battles and has accepted evolution as not conflicting with Christian doctrine. In later chapters the author seems to be longing for a return to a Judeo-Christian society, perhaps without the need for God, a concept that seems to be necessary for him to reject.

    In several sections of the book, sometimes jumping around a bit, he discusses his concept of racial genetic differences. This is what got him into trouble with publishers and he deplores the political left's obsession with egalitarianism and "diversity." I agree to some extent with his comments on Charles Murray's THE BELL CURVE INTELLIGENCE AND CLASS STRUCTURE IN AMERICAN LIFE , which has stimulated an entire literature of furious refutations by the same Left that this author criticizes. Murray and Troost are both writing about statistical means, not individuals, but the controversy was furious when The Bell Curve came out and continues. I was at Dartmouth at the time and recall people, knowing I had bought the book, asking to borrow it. They were afraid someone would see them buying it in the Dartmouth Bookstore, a mortal sin in the modern religion of secular humanism.

    Some of the material is quite technical and Troost is well equipped to discuss genetics, although he omits mention of Craig Venter A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life, who deciphered the human genome as a private entrepreneur, not part of the government funded project. Venter is going on to great discoveries that will probably solve the energy problem and, incidentally, providing irrefutable evidence of the power of evolution. The book is a bit uneven but provides a good discussion of the evolution wars and of the research in neurobiology.
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  • Steve Sailer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Apes, Angels, or Truth?
    Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2008
    Format: Hardcover
    The pioneering German sociologist Max Weber coined a useful term: "status symbol".

    This refers not just to the distinctions in clothes and furniture lovingly catalogued by novelists such as Tom Wolfe. There are also status symbols in the realm of ideas.

    Perhaps the two doctrines currently most de rigueur for entry into intellectual polite society:

    1. That humanity evolved from lower animals according to the process of natural selection outlined by Charles Darwin.

    2. That humanity has not evolved any patterns of genetic variation corresponding to geographic ancestry ... well, none other than the obvious ones that we can all see.

    These two concepts are directly contradictory, as former UCLA professor of science education Cornelius J. Troost points out in his new book Apes or Angels? Darwin, Dover, Human Nature, and Race. Troost's title refers to how the British politician Benjamin Disraeli wittily rejected the first proposition in his day: "Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels".

    Yet, the two doctrines, self-annihilating as they may be, are tests of sanctity among the self-righteous of our day. For example, Christopher Hitchens asserted in the Wall Street Journal on January 18, 2008 in "The Perils of Identity Politics" :

    "The number of subjective definitions of 'racist' is almost infinite but the only objective definition of the word is 'one who believes that there are human races.'"

    Hitchens' statement works as pure comedy gold on so many levels. Here we have America's most famous atheist making a quasi-religious creed out of a scientific controversy--and he's taking the empirically incorrect side of the debate, at that. And then he defines as a sinner anybody who doubts his dopey dogma!

    As a G.K. Chesterton scholar aptly summarized: when a man stops believing in God, he doesn't believe in nothing, he believes in anything.

    Chesterton himself wrote in 1922 in Eugenics and Other Evils:

    "The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal."

    As Troost notes, the second of these two status shibboleths asserts that Darwinian evolution suddenly--magically!--stopped at the exact the moment when Darwinian logic says it should have sped up: when the ancestors of modern humans first left Africa for new climates. (Indeed, a major paper last month by Gregory Cochran and four other leading scientists demonstrated that the latest genome data suggests that humans have been diversifying genetically at ever faster rates over the last 50,000 years).

    The second statement would be logical if you rejected the first, which Creationists do. Nevertheless, fashionable opinion today is all on the side of the apes.

    Or you could accept the first and reject the second statement--that is, 1) evolution occurred, but also 2) it's still occurring--as most honest scientists who have thought hard about the subject have done.

    The personal costs of dissent, though, are high. Confessing a disbelief in the second status symbol can lead to immediate expulsion from respectability, as we saw last October with the instant degradation of James Watson from being America's most prestigious senior scientist to being a pariah for uttering a few heretical remarks. (Interestingly, although hardly surprisingly, Watson's senior partner in discovering the structure of DNA, Francis Crick, held exactly the same dissident views, which he expressed in numerous private letters to other famous scientists.)

    Troost follows Occam's Razor in assuming both that humans evolved and are continuing to evolve. So he avoids the self-hobbling of more popular authors on evolution, who must avoid violating contemporary taboos. Troost's book provides a compact (only 214 pages) but well-integrated tour de force of the current state of the human sciences. (In reading this, please be aware that he includes some extremely generous praise of my writing.)

    Troost takes aim at the two varieties of Creationism--Fundamentalist Protestant and Secular Liberal a.k.a. Race Denial--and shows how they both undermine science education in America.

    Fundamentalist Protestant Creationism seems to be evolving in a more strident direction. The Catholic Church has always warned against fundamentalist interpretations of scripture. For example, St. Augustine wrote in late Roman times:

    "We must be on guard against giving interpretations of Scripture that are far-fetched or opposed to science, and so exposing the Word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers."
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  • Fred Zimmerman
    4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting stuff
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2009
    Format: Hardcover
    I enjoyed this book -- it was bedside reading for several days as I dipped in and out of it. The two-star review by David Edelman is on target as far as the book needing more editing and a clearer structure, but I think two stars is too harsh.
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