Tag Archives: Pierre Bayle

darwin: doubting the fixity of species

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Dave

…The folklore of scientific invention and discovery has left no striking tale of the revelation to Darwin of the clue of the origin of species, like Newton’s apple, Stephenson’s kettle lid, or Galileo dropping weights from the leaning tower of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Baruch Spinoza, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, Frans Snyders, George Eliot, J. B. Lamarck, John Bowlby, Joseph Hooker, Karl Marx, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pierre Bayle, Raden Saleh, Roelandt Jacobszoon Savery | Leave a comment

ever since Abraham gave Ishmael the boot

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Dave

There has been a couple of articles over the past several months in Haaretz, the Israeli secular left wing daily that try to confront the issue of co-existence with the Palestinians and of course the larger Islamic world from the … Continue reading →