big-rock-roll-down-hill-slope-closeup-stockpack-adobe-stock-876749010-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author Neil Thomas Date November 10, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionHistorical Sciences Tagged , chance, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Curtis Johnson, Darwin’s Dice, domestication, French Academy of Sciences, Geological Society of Dublin, John Herschel, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, natural forces, natural law, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, post hoc ergo propter hoc, predictability, quantum mechanics, Quarterly Review, Queen Victoria, randomness, regularity, Samuel Haughton, St. George Mivart, The Natural History Review, trompe-l’oeil, University of Dublin, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Whewell A Matter of Insinuation: Chance in Darwin’s Theory Neil Thomas November 10, 2025 Evolution, Historical Sciences 11 Think of a rock dislodged by happenstance, tumbling down a mountain, and coming to rest in some particular spot. Read More ›
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 ›
StGeorgeJacksonMivart Type post Author James Barham Date September 30, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionFaith & Science Tagged , Charles Darwin, Church of England, Darwin’s bulldog, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, evolutionism, excommunication, faith and science, General Morphology of Organisms, Generelle Morphologie der Organismen, historical figures, history, James Barham, King’s College, Lincoln’s Inn, On the Genesis of Species, Origin of Species, Richard Owen, Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholics, social elite, St. George Jackson Mivart, Thomas Henry Huxley, Wikipedia, William Dembski St. George Jackson Mivart: A Historical Snapshot James Barham September 30, 2025 Evolution, Faith & Science 7 In the end, Darwin, Huxley, and their friends collectively decided to “cut him dead,” meaning to ostracize him socially. Read More ›
St.-George-Jackson-Mivart Type post Author William A. Dembski Date September 29, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred William Bennett, anoura, anthologies, bats, biological origins, books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, chelonians, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Ichthyosauria, Inkwell Classics in Evolution and Design, Inkwell Press, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, pterodactyles, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, The Saturday Review, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vertebrata, William George Ward An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch William A. Dembski September 29, 2025 Evolution, Intelligent Design 12 A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Read More ›
