Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›
I began to understand that there was a rich history of the interaction between the Church and premodern science, but not one that is widely known. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
How was Darwinian theory, despite its lack of empirical support or even semblance of verisimilitude, able to advance to its present position of orthodoxy? Read More ›
When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›