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On this ID the Future<\/strong> from the vault, Discovery Institute\u2019s John West discusses his book\u00a0Darwin\u2019s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest<\/a><\/em>. Most conservatives are presumed to be critical of Darwin\u2019s theory, yet a number of thinkers on the right, such as George Will, James Q. Wilson, and Larry Arnhart, have mounted a vigorous defense of Darwinism. West shows that the attempts to reconcile conservatism and Darwinian biology ultimately misunderstand both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this ID the Future from the vault, Discovery Institute\u2019s John West discusses his book\u00a0Darwin\u2019s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest. Most conservatives are presumed to be critical of Darwin\u2019s theory, yet a number of thinkers on the right, such as George Will, James Q. Wilson, and Larry Arnhart, have mounted a vigorous defense of Darwinism. West shows that the attempts to reconcile conservatism and Darwinian biology ultimately misunderstand both.","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":39878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/IDTF-1491-JohnWest-Conservatives-Darwinism.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"630002","podmotor_episode_id":"612706","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:13:56","filesize":"12.8 mb","filesize_raw":"13386813","date_recorded":"2021-08-13","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1491","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2368,4479,3327,182,4275,4471,334,2265,410,4480,4481,550,562,4477,4473,4476,4472,687,4474,811,4478,4475,3076,1083,2189,1545,4482,1885,1649],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-39876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__repeat","tag-and-larry-arnhart","tag-biological-determinism","tag-biology","tag-competition","tag-conservatism","tag-conservatives","tag-creativity","tag-darwinism","tag-enterprise","tag-entrepreneurs","tag-eugenics","tag-evolution","tag-free-association","tag-free-enterprise","tag-free-exchange","tag-free-markets","tag-george-gilder","tag-george-will","tag-intelligent-design","tag-james-q-wilson","tag-limited-government","tag-moral-relativism","tag-neo-darwinism","tag-reductionism","tag-thomas-malthus","tag-universal-morality","tag-utopianism","tag-zero-sum-game","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["John G. West"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/eagles-fighting-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/39876\/1491.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/39876\/1491.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/39876\/1491.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Should Conservatives Embrace Darwinism?<\/a><\/blockquote>