Tag: Charles Darwin
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.
Why C. S. Lewis Doubted the Creative Power of Natural Selection
Lewis first read Bergson in France during World War I while recovering from shrapnel wounds from the front-lines, and the experience on Lewis was profound.
Listen, or Watch: West and McLean on Science, C. S. Lewis’s Journey, and More
Actor Max McLean points out an insight from Lewis on the role of apologetic and other arguments in maintaining faith.
Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3
The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe.
Biologist Jonathan Wells Gives “Top Scientific Problems with Evolution”
Darwin anticipated “innumerable transitions” in the fossil record, but such a rainbow of transitional forms has never been found.