CharlesDarwinScientificBadass4896956109 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date October 5, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionScientific Reasoning Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atomism, barnacles, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin and His Critics, David L. Hull, Duke of Argyll, Epicureanism, evolution, Fleeming Jenkin, Inkwell Press, ipse dixit, Jacob Gruber, James Barham, Lucretianism, odium antitheologicum, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholics, Samuel Haughton, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart Neil Thomas October 5, 2025 Evolution, Scientific Reasoning 5 Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Read More ›
Queen_Victoria_by_Bassano 2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date March 1, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , body parts, COVID-19, Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith (series), England, evolution, faith, Fleeming Jenkin, Lord Kelvin, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pandemic, reviewers, Victorians Darwin and the Victorian Crisis of Faith Neil Thomas March 1, 2022 Evolution, Faith & Science 2 Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing. Read More ›
Statue of a young Charles Darwin Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date July 14, 2020 CategoriesBiologyEvolution Tagged , Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Artificial Selection, barnacles, Barry Gale, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, Charles Darwin, college students, Douglas Futuyma, Ecuador, Ernst Mayr, evolutionary theory, Fleeming Jenkin, Galápagos Islands, George Gaylord Simpson, John Gould, Loren Eiseley, materialistic science, methodological naturalism, neo-Darwinian synthesis, On the Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Strickberger’s Evolution, Thomas Huxley Darwinian Mythology in Strickberger’s Evolution Robert Shedinger July 14, 2020 Biology, Evolution 8 Just because something can be counted as science does not automatically mean that it is true. Read More ›
