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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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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bishop Wilberforce, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Creation movie, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, J. B. Lamarck, Jean Du Buffon, lon chaney, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Bettany, Sir Richard Owen, T.H. Huxley
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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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Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, J. B. Lamarck, J.S. Henslow, Madame Pickwick, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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darwin: insufferable biding of time
…The voyage of the Beagle was, as he said himself, the formative experience of Darwin’s life. He lived hard, working in the cramped conditions of a sailing ship, rounding Cape Horn and making expeditions hundreds of miles inland through dangerous … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, George Stubbs paintings, J. B. Lamarck, Jeremy Bentham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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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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Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Hunt paintings, Charles Lyell, Christopher Hale, David Klinghoffer, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, J. B. Lamarck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Natural Theology Victorian England, Peter Levenda, Rational Christianity, Rev. William Paley, T.H. Huxley
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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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Tagged Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, david teniers the younger, Dean Bradley, Ferdinand van Kessel, Frans Snyders, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, T.H. Huxley
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darwin: missing links on those facts
…Huxley made the famous retort, in response to Bishop Wilberforce’s gibe, that he would prefer to have an ape for a grandfather than a man “possessed of great means and influence” who used his influence to bring an important scientific … Continue reading
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Tagged alan bullock, Bishop Wilberforce, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Christopher Hitchens, David Klinghoffer, Frantisek Kupka, Hannah Arendt, Hugh Miller geologist, Leslie Stephen, Richard Dawkins, Sir Richard Owen, Sofonisba painter, T.H. Huxley
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darwin: we may all be netted together
Darwin. His theories have already made one profound change in man’s ideas about himself and his world. An now with genetics we are entering phase two… …The furor created by the publication of The Origin of Species was not due … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bishop Wilberforce, Bob Dylan, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Creation Museum Kentucky, Darwin Natural Theology, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Natural Theology, Pope Pius XII Humani Generis, T.H. Huxley
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matters of taste and waste
Artistic dependency on money? Art as a cash crop, growing money and not the fertility of artistic endeavor. The effects of urban , cosmopolitan culture on the arts probably stretched back to the Renaissance, but it may have been Watteau … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Charles Baudelaire, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith
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