Author: Michael Flannery
For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology
Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes.
Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin
The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these.
Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley
Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why.
Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”
This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head.
Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts
Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination.