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 ›
HMS Beagle Type post Author Neil Thomas Date June 13, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent 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 ›
Samuel Haughton Type post Author Neil Thomas Date June 10, 2022 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Aristotle, biosphere, Charles Lyell, David Hull, Democritus, Edward Blyth, Empedocles, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Georges Cuvier, Greece, Homo sapiens, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, Law of Correlation, Linnaean Society, Loren Eiseley, materialism, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, pigeons, Rome, Royal Society, Samuel Haughton, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, Whitwell Elwin, William Irvine Meet Samuel Haughton, Darwin’s First Scientific Critic Neil Thomas June 10, 2022 Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design 18 Darwin reports Haughton’s verdict as having been that “all that was new in there was false, and what was true was old.” Read More ›
