Tag: Lucretius
Darwinian Theory: Science or Speculative Philosophy?
Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures.
Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention?
Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether.
Nothing New Under the Sun
The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions.
How I Came to Take Leave of Darwin: A Coda
After seeing my recent book through to publication, I began to experience a certain gnawing feeling.
The Stars Above Us
What Lucretius once termed in the widest sense “the nature of things” is no respecter of modern scientific conventions.