Charles_Bradlaugh_Statue_Northampton Type post Author Neil Thomas Date August 1, 2022 CategoriesCultureFaith & Science Tagged , Adrian Desmond, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Edward Aveling, Erasmus Darwin, James Moore, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Matthew Arnold, On the Origin of Species, Robert Chambers, secularism, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorian England Darwin and the British Secularist Tradition Neil Thomas August 1, 2022 Culture, Faith & Science 10 The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama. Read More ›
Dawkins-atheist-bus Type post Author Neil Thomas Date January 12, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionLife Sciences Tagged , agnostics, atheism, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, George Eliot, HMS Beagle, London, Lucretius, Ludwig Feuerbach, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), Naturphilosophie, world spirit Darwinian Theory: Science or Speculative Philosophy? Neil Thomas January 12, 2022 Evolution, Life Sciences 7 Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures. Read More ›