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Darwin: cchh..chch…changes
…Of course, Darwin’s theory was not immediately accepted by all scientists, either; in England its opponents were lead by Sir Richard Owen, superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, while in America the chief protagonists for and … Continue reading
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darwin: hooker, line, and sink or swim
…Darwin’s own account suggests that in part he owed the inspiration for his theory to reading T.R. Malthus’s Essay on Population which was written in 1798, though the dates in Darwin’s journal throw some doubt on this. Malthus’s essay purports … Continue reading
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darwin: build them and they will run
The man with the biggest club has all the fun… …As a book, The Origin of Species gains enormously from the range of interests that a natural scientist could still, in the mid-nineteenth century, allow himself. It is a work … Continue reading
darwin: if only one could discern it
…Darwin had been struck during the voyage by a number of facts which seemed at odds with the special creation of each species. The organic life he studied so intensively and collected so assiduously seemed littered with clues, odd similarities, … Continue reading
darwin:blind chance of divine mutation
…The theory of evolution in biology was already an old, even a discredited, one. Darwin, in his preface to The Origin of Species, listed more than thirty precursors- and was accused, in spite of this, of serious omissions. Greek thinkers … Continue reading
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young darwin: denial of the fittest
…Darwin himself was a lover of nature, a collector and sportsman, before he was a man of science. He grew up with the tastes of an English provincial gentleman at a time whn hunting, shooting, and the breeding of horses … Continue reading
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darwin: going rogue on rational
…The clergyman had probably been educated, as Darwin himself had been, in that school of Christian apologetics known as “Rational Christianity,” of which the work of Darwin’s neighbor in death and fame, Isaac Newton, had been the chief inspiration. Rational … Continue reading
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darwin: bug hunting as trojan horse
…Moreover, men were beginning to have some understanding of the complex interactions in nature, of the contribution to the animal and vegetable “balance” of even the noxious and disagreeable. To pursue in any detail the pleasing evidences of divine purpose … Continue reading
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benevolent nature: and then came darwin
…The world was not only imaginatively comprehensible, it was benevolently ordered. It is true that, ever since Copernicus and Galileo, the earth could no longer be regarded as the center of the universe; the music of the spheres was stilled. … Continue reading
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darwin: everything is amazing and nobody’s happy
…Charles Darwin’s body lies in Westminster Abbey, close to the grave of Sir Isaac Newton. It is a proximity which few would challenge, nor is there any oddity in the presence there of Newton, devout Christian and Biblical scholar that … Continue reading
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