William Wordsworth’s Posthumous Challenge to Darwinian Nihilism

"survival of the fittest", Alvar Ellegard, Charles Darwin, Charles Dickens, Christianity, Culture & Ethics, Ebenezer Scrooge, evolutionary processes, Faith & Science, Higher Criticism, logic, nature, nihilism, Origin of Species, philosophy, poetry, Robert Ryan, Samuel Butler, spirituality, Thomas Malthus, Victorian England, William Wordsworth
Paradoxically, Wordsworth's theology may have formed a more effective counterforce to Darwin's ideas than Biblical orthodoxy itself. Source
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Wordsworth: Disciples at Home and Abroad

Bible, Christianity, cosmogony, Culture & Ethics, Das Heilige, earth, Faith & Science, Heaven, Hell, hierophany, Matthew Arnold, Mircea Eliade, poetry, Ralph Waldo Emerson, romanticism, Rudolf Otto, subconscious, The Idea of the Holy, The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)
In 1848 Ralph Waldo Emerson is on record as having paid a return visit to the then aged Wordsworth. Source
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Wordsworth: The Sage of the Lakes

Alexander Pope, bestseller, Britons, Charles Darwin, Culture & Ethics, Dove Cottage, F. W. H. Myers, Faith & Science, George Eliot, Guide to the Lakes, Harriet Martineau, John Stuart Mill, Lake District, nature, poets, Queen Victoria, railway, Stopford Brooke, tourists, transcendence, Victorian England, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth versus Darwin (series)
Wordsworth gave rise not just to a minority group of high-culture admirers but to a popular revolution in ordinary people’s thinking. Source
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Berlinski, Metaxas in NYC: What Is a Human Being?

biological origins, Culture & Ethics, Darwinian theory, Darwinists, David Berlinski, dress code, Eric Metaxas, Events, human exceptionalism, human nature, Human Nature (book), Human Origins, Intelligent Design, jungle, materialism, New York City, philosophy, Psalms, Socrates in the City, Union League Club
The issues involved in the evolution debate derive their interest and importance largely from one question. Source
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Darwinian Racism, Past and Present

Center for Science & Culture, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, criminology, Culture & Ethics, Darwin Comes to Africa, Darwin Day in America, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution, humans, Italy, materialism, Museum of Criminal Anthropology, racial struggle, Racism, Richard Weikart, The Descent of Man, Turin, white superiority
John West discusses his experience visiting the Museum of Criminal Anthropology in Turin, Italy, and Cesare Lombroso’s racist ideas about evolution. Source
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Egnor: Why More Sex Change Medicine for Teens in U.S. than Europe?

Children’s Hospital, clitoris, Culture & Ethics, Europe, gender affirmation, Gender Dysphoria, hysterectomy, information, Jason Rantz, KTTH, Medicine, mental health, metoidioplasty, Michael Egnor, National Health Service, patients, penis, scrotum, Seattle, sex change, surgery, teenagers, testicles, testicular implants, United States, University of Washington, vaginoplasty
One factor in the difference between the United States and Europe may be less accurate information in the United States. Source
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