Tag: Rome
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.”
As Many Opinions as There Are Men?
The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree.
Seeking Racial Reconciliation in the Heart of Texas at a Screening of Human Zoos
I love taking part in post-screening discussions of my films because I get to hear and learn from perspectives different from my own.
Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable
Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD?
Science and Storytelling
To advance the false conception that science is always in conflict with religious tradition, some influential scientists and science popularizers tell us stories about the past and the present.