Tag: Enlightenment
Poet and Scientist, Goethe Offered an Enlightenment Theodicy
Like Erasmus Darwin, Goethe was both poet and scientist and had himself at one time speculated on ideas of evolution.
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.
Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized
An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation.
Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth
Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design.
Slavery and the Image of God
America is the only country on Earth to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a war to end slavery.