Darwin and the Newtonian Metanarrative
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