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Samuel Wilberforce
Image: Samuel Wilberforce, by George Richmond, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

What Really Happened at the Huxley-Wilberforce Debate?

The stereotype portraying Wilberforce as the pompous bishop rejecting Darwin on theological grounds is easily dispelled. 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 ›
Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Darwin and Theomachy

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) provides the closest chronological fit with Darwin. Read More ›
L0003411 Mary Augusta, Mrs. Humphry Ward. Photograph by Barraud.
Photo: Mrs. Humphry Ward, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwin and the Victorian Culture Wars

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.” Read More ›
Max McLean as C. S. Lewis
Photo: Max McLean as C. S. Lewis, via The Most Reluctant Convert.

Spend an Evening with C. S. Lewis on November 3

The movie opens with Lewis as an outspoken scientific atheist, whose view of science reinforces his bleak materialistic view of the universe. Read More ›

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