Tag: Origin of Species
Darwin and the Problem of Pain
For many Enlightenment Age Europeans, the death-knell for belief in an omnipresent, interventionist God had been sounded by the great Lisbon earthquake.
Some Unintended Consequences of Atheist (and Theist) Discourse
This “law of unintended consequences” is an intriguing aspect of the whole Darwin/Dawkins affair that deserves further investigation.
Darwin’s Racism of the Gaps
A defender of Darwinism might object that it’s silly to ding Darwin for his racism, since just about every white person in Victorian England was racist.
Newly Discovered War Machines in the Immune System
A newly discovered defense against pathogens involves armor and bullets that render an attacker immobile and self-destructing.
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.