Tag: history
The Darwinian Origins of Euthanasia Advocacy
Everything in ethics, every single weighty cultural issue I can think of, hinges on the question of biological origins.
Alfred Russel Wallace — Intelligent Design’s Lost Ancestor, Now Found
Michael Flannery casts Wallace as a “prophet,” in the Greek sense, one who interprets the text of nature.
Crime and Punishment, and Darwin’s Theory
In the years that followed 1859, the impact of evolutionary thinking seeped across the culture of Europe and America.
For Darwin Advocates, Wistar Conference Remains a Pain in the Master Narrative
Mathematicians told biologists, “It looks like the math is not going to cooperate” with evolutionary theory.
Darwin and Wallace Read Malthus Differently, and That Made a Big Difference
When Oswald Spengler read Darwin’s Origin, he thought the conflation of biology and economics reeked of the English factory.