05Oct 2025 by Post

A Neglected Dissenter from Darwinism: St. George Mivart

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, scientific reasoning, Sir Charles Lyell, St. George Jackson Mivart, Stephen Jay Gould, The Descent of Man, theists, vera causa
Mivart’s objection to Darwinism has not gone away (although it is often studiously ignored). Source
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29Sep 2025 by Post

An 1871 Critic of Darwinism Whose Criticisms Still Pack a Punch

Alfred William Bennett, anoura, anthologies, bats, biological origins, Books, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, chelonians, convergence, Darwinists, development, Ernst Haeckel, Evolution, excommunication, growth, humans, Ichthyosauria, Inkwell Classics in Evolution and Design, Inkwell Press, Intelligent Design, John Henry Newman, monographs, natural selection, On the Genesis of Species, pterodactyles, Roman Catholics, St. George Jackson Mivart, The Descent of Man, The Saturday Review, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vertebrata, William George Ward
A new series aims to restore a historically honest balance to the debate over evolution and design in the study of biological origins. Source
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25Jul 2024 by Post

On Developmental Gene Regulatory Networks, the Scientific Literature Supports Stephen Meyer

biology, Caltech, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charles Marshall, Darwin's Doubt, Developmental Biology (journal), developmental gene regulatory networks, dialogue, Dlx gene, Eörs Szathmáry, epigenetic information, Eric Davidson, evo-devo, Evolution, Evolution News, genes, Hox genes, Intelligent Design, kernels, phenotype, Stephen Meyer, subcircuits, The Joe Rogan Experience, transmutation
Mutations in genes that affect body plan characteristics don’t lead to new body plans — they lead to dead embryos. Source
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25Nov 2023 by Post

Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life in Science, Rediscovered

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, Alfred Russel Wallace, botany, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Evolution, H.M.S. Beagle, Intelligent Design, 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
Despite the notoriety of Wallace in his own day, he remains a comparatively obscure figure in the history of biology. Source
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12May 2023 by Post

Joseph L. Graves as the “Black Darwin”? Think Again

A Christmas Carol, A Voice in the Wilderness, academia, African Americans, anti-racism, Atheism, BioLogos, cave rats, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Charles Lyell, Crustacea, Culture & Ethics, Evolution, evolutionary biology, Francis Collins, history, Human Zoos, J. D. Dana, Jackie Robinson, John West, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Kool-Aid, Louis Agassiz, racial stereotypes, Racism, The Voyage of the Beagle, theistic evolution, Victorian England, Yale University
Darwin could never be considered the kind of anti-racist activist Graves makes him out to be. Source
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18Mar 2023 by Post

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Charleston, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Evolution, history, Intelligent Design, James Moore, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Lake Superior, primary sources, Races of Man, Racism, Royal Agricultural College, S. P. Woodward, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States
Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Source
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16Jan 2023 by Post

Old Wine in New Bottles: How Darwin Recruited Malthus to Fortify a Failed Idea from Antiquity

abiogenesis, Alphonse de Candolle, Aristotle, atheists, atomism, Charles Bradlaugh, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Christianity, complexification, David Hume, Edward Aveling, Epicurus, Erasmus Darwin, Evolution, Friedrich Engels, Georges Cuvier, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Greece, Homo sapiens, Intelligent Design, Karl Marx, Law of Correlation, Lucretius, Matthew Arnold, Middle Ages, natural selection, Origin of Species, Patrick Matthew, Plato, Poor Law, Rome, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Malthus, transhumanism, Unmoved Mover, Victorian England, William Paley
It was undoubtedly a tremendous philosophical coup for Darwin whose knowledge of formal philosophy was limited. Source
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08Jun 2022 by Post

Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?

biology, Charles Coulton Gillispie, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Dean Kenyon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Evolution, Fred Hoyle, Geology, Isaac Newton, James Hutton, James Thomson, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Percival Davis, Peter Bowler, Physics, Earth & Space, Principles of Geology, Robert Elsmere, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Sandra Herbert, The City of Dreadful Night, The Origin of Species, Theory of the Earth, Thomas Huxley, William Shakespeare
Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors. Source
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06Aug 2021 by Post

God Hypothesis: The Problem of Background Knowledge

Bayesian reasoning, breadcrumbs, car break-in, Charles Lyell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Croatia, Croatians, Delta variant, Faith & Science, Fran Lebowitz, God Hypothesis, Hansel and Gretel, inference to the best explanation, Intelligent Design, James Croft, Lydia McGrew, masks, Michael Scriven, philosophers, puppy, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Substack, Thomas Crisp
The wet-washcloth sensation of puppy tongue on baby cheeks is part of the baby’s evidence that Puppy exists. Source
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