Tag: Robert Chambers

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, childhood, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionary psychology, Greek gods, HMS Beagle, Janet Browne, Martin Luther, Michael Neve, Misia Landau, Robert Chambers, Samuel Haughton, sociobiologists, Stephen Jay Gould, telos, Thomas Huxley, William Wordsworth}

Darwin’s Science and Storytelling

_{Neil Thomas
June 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

17}

His five-year voyage was undoubtedly an eye-opening rite of passage but perhaps not as foundational to his intellectual development as is sometimes proposed. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 25, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, evolution, HMS Beagle, Island Life, Joseph Conrad, Joseph Hooker, Linnean Society, Malay Archipelago, Michael Flannery, Nature's Prophet, Palms of the Amazon and Rio Negro, Robert Chambers, Samuel Stevens, Sarawak Law, Somerset Maugham, South America, The Malay Archipelago, Use, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Walter Henry Bates}

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

_{Michael Flannery
November 25, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design

8}

Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 25, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, atheism, Charles Darwin, Christianity, cosmogony, evolution, Glen Roy, Harvard University, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Louis Agassiz, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Platonic forms, Robert Chambers, United States}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin Comes to America

_{Neil Thomas
August 25, 2022

Evolution, Science

5}

A less class-bound kind of protectiveness was shown to Darwin in the United States by Professor Asa Gray of Harvard University. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 24, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, Britain, Down House, evolution, friendship, George Romanes, history, HMS Beagle, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, natural selection, Oxbridge, Peter Bowler, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, Samuel Wilberforce, sociologists, Thomas Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Westminster Abbey, William Whewell}

Why Darwin Eclipsed Wallace: Darwin and the English Class System

_{Neil Thomas
August 24, 2022

Evolution, Science

7}

The theory of natural selection was the co-discovery of two men, but by the mid 1860s one of its progenitors began to reject his own theory. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 1, 2022

Categories
Culture
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Crisis of Doubt, Dover Beach, Edward Aveling, Erasmus Darwin, In Memoriam, James Moore, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Matthew Arnold, On the Origin of Species, Oxbridge, Robert Chambers, secularism, The Rights of Man, Timothy Larsen, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorian England}

Darwin and the British Secularist Tradition

_{Neil Thomas
August 1, 2022

Culture, Faith & Science

10}

The arresting historical vignette of Darwin’s fraught meeting with Bradlaugh and Aveling at his country retreat would doubtless make for a good TV docudrama. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 6, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Charles Darwin, D’Alembert’s Dream, daemons, Denis Diderot, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Fates, gods, harpies, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, John Herschel, Judeo-Christian tradition, Julien Offray de la Mettrie, L’Homme Machine, Lucretius, natural selection, Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention? (series), On the Origin of Species, philosophes, Robert Chambers, satyrs, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Victorians}

Natural Selection: Discovery or Invention?

_{Neil Thomas
January 6, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, African Americans, Appomattox Court House, Charles Darwin, chimpanzee, Christopher Cosans, Civil War, craniometrics, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, functionalist evolution, Giovanni Camardi, Hottentot, John Hedley Brooke, Joseph Barnard Davis, Malayan, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Paul Broca, Racism, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, structuralist evolution, The Descent of Man, The Reader, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

6}

Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin Day, evolutionary racism, Frederick Douglass, freedom, humans, Jim Crow, Ku Klux Klan, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism

_{Michael Flannery
February 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

4}

One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
October 27, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alexander Oparin, Alfred Russel Wallace, Baden Powell, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, clockmaker, Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, creator, David Hume, Erasmus Darwin, evolutionists, Francisco Ayala, Gottfried Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton, John Ray, Joseph Le Conte, Kenneth Miller, mosquitos, religion, Robert Chambers, scientists, Stephen Jay Gould, theology, Thomas Burnet, universe}

When Scientists Make Truth Claims Outside Science

_{Cornelius Hunter
October 27, 2020

Evolution

6}

Here is a small, representative sampling of such claims over the past three centuries. These claims are not from science, but they drive science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 14, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, African Americans, Appomattox Court House, Charles Darwin, chimpanzee, Christopher Cosans, Civil War, craniometrics, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, functionalist evolution, Giovanni Camardi, Hottentot, John Hedley Brooke, Joseph Barnard Davis, Malayan, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Paul Broca, Racism, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, structuralist evolution, The Descent of Man, The Reader, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts

_{Michael Flannery
January 14, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

6}

Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›