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But it is one of these sort of mythologies about America and its intellectual history, that the right embraced this thing called social Darwinism, when it never did so.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

Darwinism is not merely a support for naturalistic philosophy: it is a product of naturalistic philosophy.

I think there's a mystery about what a social movement is.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.

Atheistic evolution isn't an intelligent belief, as atheists would have the black community believe.

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.

Before Darwin, our world was very religious. People saw altruism as something given by God for us to be good so that we could go to Paradise.