Tag: Epicurus
Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic
Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.”
Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science
One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, “natural selection.”
Darwin and Theomachy
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin.
Neil Thomas Takes on Epicurus and the Logical Positivists
Hanegraaff and Thomas provide a model of how two men with differing positions on Christianity can challenge each other while remaining cordial.
The Ghost of Epicurus and the Doctrine of Natural Selection
The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.