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  • 03.21.23

Tag: Victorians

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Neil Thomas
March 7, 2023, 6:26 AM

Natural Selection: The Evolution of a Mirage

Natural selection reveals itself as not just a metaphor but a mixed one: Nature being dumb but nevertheless capable of discrimination.

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Neil Thomas
July 11, 2022, 6:54 AM

Darwin, Lyell, and a Tale of Two Faiths

Darwin found himself in the unhappy position of having his faith undermined by what he saw as the non-directed processes of geological and biological evolution.

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Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022, 7:10 PM

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity.

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Neil Thomas
April 7, 2022, 12:09 PM

Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science

One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, “natural selection.”

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Neil Thomas
March 1, 2022, 5:51 PM

Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith 

Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing.

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