Tag: Samuel Wilberforce
The Rise of Theistic Darwinism
This form of objection left the door ajar to the kind of “hybrid” interpretation favored by some in both Britain and America in the later Victorian period.
For Darwin, Timing Was Everything
Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?
The Legacy of Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus even touched on the theory of natural selection when he concluded that the strongest and most active animals would propagate the species.
Natural Selection: A Conceptually Incoherent Term
As a schoolboy I remember being told that the surest way of finding out if any given English proposition made sense or not was to try to translate it into Latin, French, or German.
The Miracle Worker: How Darwinism Dishonors the Enlightenment
If the reigning materialist paradigm had even a tolerably convincing weight of evidence behind it, I would be the first to accept it.