Tag: England
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, “The Catholic Darwin”
No doubt, Teilhard had — and has — Catholic admirers. The most positive Catholic assessment I have encountered comes from the pen of Msgr. Bruno de Solages.
“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin
“We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds.”
Teaching Darwin: A Hypothetical Program
Charles Darwin himself contemplated being mistaken, writing “I have asked myself whether I may not have devoted my life to a fantasy.”
Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency.
John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism
I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority.