Mother Earth Type post Author Neil Thomas Date July 15, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , Aristotle, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Europe, faith, Geoffrey Chaucer, George Levine, goddess, Lucretius, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, Ovid, paganism, Plato, Robert J. Richards, Samuel Wilberforce, Victorian England, William Paley Nature Divinized: Darwin’s Goddess for All Seasons Neil Thomas July 15, 2022 Evolution, Faith & Science 10 Some modern archaeologists have even gone so far as to claim that the archetype of the Great Mother has been a mythic universal. Read More ›
Mother Earth Type post Author Neil Thomas Date July 14, 2022 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , agriculturalists, Basil Willey, breeders, Charles Darwin, Emma Darwin, faith, Gaia, George Levine, goddess, Janet Browne, literature, metaphor, Mother Nature, natural preservation, nature, On the Origin of Species, paganism, Robert J. Richards, Stephen Jay Gould Darwin’s Goddess: Natural Selection as “Divine Surrogate” Neil Thomas July 14, 2022 Evolution, Faith & Science 7 When parsed carefully, the metaphorical structure of Darwin’s argumentation emerges as little less than a periphrastic description of the goddess Natura. Read More ›
