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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley
Image: Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint, via Wikimedia Commons.

Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›
Tintern Abbey
Image: Tintern Abbey, by J. M. W. Turner, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Wordsworthian Disciple: William Hale White

Many reported being “converted” to a Wordsworthian view of the world after reading him. Read More ›
Darwin's shoes
Photo: Detail of Darwin statue, Natural History Museum, London, by Rept0n1x (Own work) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Materialist Science as Paternalistic Propaganda

Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons. Read More ›
sun
Photo credit: Lenstravelier via Unsplash.

Nothing New Under the Sun

The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions. Read More ›
Frankenstein
Frankenstein
Image: Illustration from Frankenstein, 1922, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Google books) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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