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 ›
RembrandtvanRijn-Ascholarinhisstudy1634-2 Type post Author Neil Thomas Date September 25, 2025 CategoriesArtsEvolution Tagged , alchemy, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Aristotle, Ben Jonson, Charles Bradlaugh, Christopher Marlowe, Cicero, David Berman, Doctor Faustus, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Galen, George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, H. J. Shephard, history, HMS Beagle, intellectual history, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Journal of Researches, literature, Lucretianism, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Misia Landau, Origin of Species, Peter Bement, philosophy, Plato, Renaissance, seafaring, The Alchemist, Tom Wolfe Darwin, Faust, and the Alchemist: Unexpected Roots of a Scientific Idea Neil Thomas September 25, 2025 Arts, Evolution 19 Today we would of course brand both Faust and the Alchemist fantasists or “mad scientists” of the first order. Was Darwin prone to such wishful thinking? Read More ›
