Author: Michael Flannery
Darwin’s First Theist: Charles Kingsley and the Problem of Coherence
Darwin had already won his man over — reading the book was almost superfluous. Of course Darwin was delighted by Kingsley’s fawning support.
Intelligent Design as a “Science Stopper”? Here’s the Real Story
It is almost a mantra among Darwin’s most devoted followers: Intelligent Design is a “science stopper.”
In Praise of Jacques Barzun
When Barzun received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama, if not physically present at least a good many of us were there in high spirit and hearty assent.
How Was Darwin’s Theory Accepted? The Curious History of a Secular Creation Myth, or, Darwin’s Cultural Armor, pt. 2
In a post on July 7th I suggested that Darwinian evolution was a “scientific pip-squeak and a suit of cultural armor”. Here I would like to examine exactly how that cultural armor was historically constructed. In so doing we will see the stuff of which Darwinism is truly made.
Darwinian Evolution: A Scientific Pip-Squeak in a Suit of Cultural Armor
It’s through the general captivation of a wide ranging intelligentsia that Darwinism has become dressed in a kind of suit of cultural armor.