Author: Neil Thomas
Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma
A colleague remarked to me (in an uncharacteristically unscholarly disclosure) that he could not share my interest in “all this old 19th-century stuff.”
Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith: A Postscript
As is the case with the Biblical parables of Jesus, this one is entirely self-explanatory and needs no further comment from myself.
Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking
Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee.
Darwin and the Swinging 1860s
The threat which such thinking posed to theistic beliefs was not lost on the Roman Catholic Church when Pope Pius IX convened the First Vatican Council of 1869.
Darwin and Theomachy
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin.