Tag: Erasmus Darwin
Where Is the Evidence for Darwinism?
Notoriously, one of the shrewdest of Darwin’s “reticences” concerned the lack of fossil evidence.
Evolutionary Theory as Magical Thinking
Charles Darwin himself exemplified the Argument from Pique, alluded to in past entries in this series, to a tee.
Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Molecular Phylogeny
Common ancestry does not emerge from the inconsistent findings of molecular phylogenetics.
The Enlightenment (Re)turn to Atomism
What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes.
Darwinian Theory: Science or Speculative Philosophy?
Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures.