Tag: Thomas Hardy
Richard Dawkins and the Law of Unintended Consequences
The New Atheists’ failure to understand the nuanced way that “ordinary people” think was a profound strategic error.
Literary Footnotes to the Book of Job
Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century.
Literary Naturalism and a Time Machine
The sun is burning out, and life on Earth is heading for extinction. This aptly conveys Darwinian materialism’s vision of a meaningless universe.
The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution
The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack.