Tag: Charles Lyell
Darwin and the Problem of Pain
For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake.
On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer
Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos.
On Natural Theology and Natural Revelation
The nihilist sense of our having been involuntarily flung into the midst of some unchoreographed theatre of the absurd is swiftly offset,
Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate
The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith.
Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered
Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology.