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Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series)

Ernst Haeckel
Photo: Statue of Ernst Haeckel, Chemnitz, Saxony, by André Karwath aka Aka, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Many Opinions as There Are Men?

The ideas of Ernst Haeckel, in his youth a hardline Darwinian materialist, were to evolve to a surprising degree. Read More ›
Charles Kingsley
Photo: Charles Kingsley, by Charles Watkins via Wikimedia Commons.

The Rise of Theistic Darwinism

This form of objection left the door ajar to the kind of “hybrid” interpretation favored by some in both Britain and America in the later Victorian period. Read More ›
Down House
Darwinian
Photo: Down House, home of Charles Darwin, by Mario Modesto [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Hamlet of Down House

Darwin began casting around in his mind for supplementary theories, sometimes going so far as to reconsider evolutionary thinking he had once firmly rejected. Read More ›
giraffe
Photo credit: Elizabeth Smith, via Unsplash.

Where Is the Evidence for Darwinism?

Notoriously, one of the shrewdest of Darwin’s “reticences” concerned the lack of fossil evidence. Read More ›
Origin of Species
Douglas Axe
Photo: The Origin of Species, first edition, via Wikimedia Commons.

Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma

A colleague remarked to me (in an uncharacteristically unscholarly disclosure) that he could not share my interest in “all this old 19th-century stuff.” Read More ›

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