Reviews
“West does an excellent job showing how Darwinian science has cheapened human life and limited man’s horizons. . . . This book demands a sequel.” —Chronicles
“The definitive scholarly critique of the social implications of treating human beings as uppity animals. Darwin Day in America is an indispensable guidebook for the coming debate over whether a civilization based on amoral Darwinian materialism is fit to survive—a must read for all who fail to recognize what is at stake in teaching the materialist superstition.” —George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty
“West superbly makes the case that Darwin had plenty of bad ideas, and we are seeing plenty of ugly consequences today as a result. This very important book deserves to be widely read and discussed.” —Culture Watch
“West makes a solid case for how all such ugly social and cultural radicalism finds solid ideological grounding in the ideas of Darwin. For too long there have been apologists for Darwin who have sought to argue that a large gulf looms between the biological ideas of Darwin and Social Darwinism. West very capably demonstrates that there is in fact very little distance between the two.” —News Weekly
“Darwin Day in America is a thoroughly documented book (almost 100 pages of endnotes) written in an easy, fluent style. It is much to be recommended.” —New Oxford Review
“John West has done a characteristically excellent job in analyzing social Darwinism and the insidious ideology which has infected almost every area of American public policy. This is provocative and important reading.” —Chuck Colson, founder of Prison Fellowship
“A superb overview of what happens once we start seeing man as an overachieving worm. John West shows how a Darwin Day worldview affects everything from sex and philanthropy to crime and euthanasia.” —Marvin Olasky, World magazine
“A deep and comprehensive study of scientific materialism’s morally corrupting effects on American public policy.” —Larry Arnhart, author of Darwinian Conservatism
“If you think that the debate over materialism is irrelevant to your own life, you need to read John West’s important and fascinating book. West provides shocking detail showing how scientific materialism and Darwinism have influenced many realms of American society and culture, including criminal justice, economics, business, education, and medicine.” —Richard Weikart, author of From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany
“A well-documented account of the frightening influence of philosophical materialism on the application of science to American society.” —Robert C. Koons, University of Texas at Austin
