Ada Lovelace,
Charles Babbage,
Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series),
Charles Lyell,
Culture & Ethics,
Darwinism,
Evolution,
Geology,
Great Britain,
Isaac Newton,
Lord Byron,
mathematicians,
On the Origin of Species,
post-Christian era,
Richard Hofstadter,
uniformitarianism,
Victorian England
People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion. Source
Bible,
Charles Darwin,
Charles Darwin and the Ghost of Epicurus (series),
Christianity,
Christianity Not Mysterious,
Culture & Ethics,
Das Wesen des Christentums,
David Hume,
deism,
demythologization,
Enlightenment,
Essays and Reviews,
Evolution,
faith,
George Eliot,
John Stuart Mill,
John Toland,
Ludwig Feuerbach,
On Liberty,
On the Origin of Species,
Owen Chadwick,
philosophy,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Samuel Wilberforce,
secularization,
The Essence of Christianity,
Thucydides
Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it? Source