Tag: Samuel Wilberforce
A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory
Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods.
What Ever Happened to Darwin’s Big Book?
Why didn’t Darwin publish the evidence for his momentous theory? And why was his thesis hailed as one of the greatest ideas in science despite that fact?
Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: The Role of Propaganda
To isolate and quantify the factors which ultimately led to the acceptance of Darwinian ideas is not a straightforward task.
Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System
The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory.
Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons
Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal.