Author: Neil Thomas
How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin
I had once assumed that any opposition to Darwin must necessarily be confined to the ranks of such as Biblical fundamentalists.
Darwin and Milton: From Paradise Lost to the Origin of Species
Literary critic William Empson, in a famous study, described Satan as the de facto hero of the epic in a cosmic revolt against divine repression.
The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment
If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it.
Cosmos, Chaos, and a Privileged Address in the Universe
What are we to make of this radical discontinuity between the Earth and the rest of the cosmos?
In Darwin, the Descent of a PR Man
Darwin’s reiteration here and elsewhere of the phrase “we may confidently believe” veils the tenuous truth-value of what he proposes.