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 ›
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 ›
Charles Darwin statue Type post Author Robert F. Shedinger Date February 10, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsEvolution Tagged , Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin Deleted, Down House, Emma Darwin, evolution, John Murray, Joseph Hooker, Journal of Researches, Linnean Society, On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, Quarterly Review, Southeast Asia, Ternate, Whitwell Elwin, William Darwin Fox Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published? Robert Shedinger February 10, 2022 Bioethics, Evolution 8 Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing. Read More ›
