IMG4947-2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date July 6, 2026 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , __featured2, ancient Greeks, Augustan age, Before Philosophy, Charles Darwin, Christianity, creation stories, D’Alembert’s Dream, Denis Diderot, Erasmus Darwin, France, Genesis, Great Britain, Henri Frankfort, Higher Criticism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, lion, Marcion of Sinope, Mary Midgley, materialists, metaphors, mythographers, natural philosophers, natural selection, oak tree, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, parchment, petroglyphs, religion, Sir Charles Lyell, The Origin of Society, The Temple of Nature, transmutation, Victorian England, whale Genesis Rescripted: Erasmus and Charles Darwin’s Biblical Indebtedness Neil Thomas July 6, 2026 Evolution, Faith & Science 13 One may argue that myth still informs the metaphors underlying the formulation of some present-day scientific theories. Read More ›