butterfly-mimicry Type post Author Richard Weikart Date December 16, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , adaptations, Alphonse de Candolle, Asa Gray, biologists, butterflies, Cambridge University Press, Darwin Mythology, final cause, Friedrich Engels, Harvard University, historians, James G. Lennox, Karl Marx, mimicry, purpose, teleology, William Graham Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not? Richard Weikart December 16, 2024 Evolution, Intelligent Design 5 James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›
Thomas Malthus Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 16, 2023 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity Neil Thomas January 16, 2023 Evolution, Intelligent Design 16 It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Read More ›
