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Darwin brought about a new way of thinking about morphological comparisons: he treated the archetype as a consequence of past evolutionary processes. He deliberately ridiculed the conservative anatomists who continued to look upon such schemes as ideas in the mind of God. In consequence he effected a revolution in the attitudes of many systematists toward their work. The construction of archetypes gave way to the reconstruction of common ancestors, and systematics became inseparable from

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matters is in part determined by his philosophical outlook. To Linnaeus, there was no species problem, because Aristotelian philosophy, as he understood it, implies that the universe is organized in the form of classes. To nominalists, it was possible to look upon species as corresponding each to a group descended from progenitors created by God in the beginning. Or, the very existence of species could be denied altogether, and the evident distinctness of organisms in nature could be viewed as

A591    Pamphlet:     Armstrong, Patrick. 1992. Charles Darwin's last island: Terceira, Azores, 1836. Geowest no. 27.   Text   Image

we should go to sea the same evening. and on departing from the island of S o Miguel a day or so later: [W]e steered thanks to God, a direct course for England. There were things that Darwin quite liked about Terceira, and the green familiarity of parts of the landscape, along with the (to him) commonplace organisms that lived there were amongst them. It reminded him of home in so many ways, yet it was not home, and he was glad to be away. Immediately after Darwin's last diary entry on the

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explore the islands of the Pacific. He was certainly looking forward to this part of the voyage. On New Year's Day 1835, after many months of poor, gloomy weather around the southern tip of South America, he wrote: The new year is ushered in with the Ceremonies proper to it in these regions: - she lays out no false hopes; a heavy NW gale with steady rain bespeaks the rising year. Thank God we shall not here see the end of it; but rather in the Pacific, where a blue sky does tell one, there is a

A161    Periodical contribution:     Steinheimer, F. D. 2004. Charles Darwin's bird collection and ornithological knowledge during the voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, 1831-1836. Journal of Ornithology 145(4): 300-320, 4 figures (appendix [pp. 1-40]).   Text   Image   PDF

les annees 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et la 2de. annee de la Republique francaise, 2 vols and atlas. Jansen, Paris Lack D (1961) Darwin's Finches—an essay on the general bio-logical theory of evolution. Harper Torchbooks, New York Larson EJ (2001) Evolution's workshop—god and science on the Galapagos Islands. Allen Lane, London Lesson RP (1828) Manuel d'ornithologie, ou, Description des genres et des principales especes d'oiseaux, 2 vols. Roret, Paris Lichtenstein [M]H[C] (1823

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father, and christened by some other name —LLiii 78. 1868 CD to Wallace, It is a relief to have some feasible explanation of the various facts, which can be given up as soon as any better hypothesis is found . I had given up the great god Pan as a stillborn deity —LLiii 80. 1868 CD to Lyell, An untried hypothesis is always dangerous ground —Carroll 349. 1869 CD to Hooker, You will be surely haunted on your deathbed for not honouring the great god Pan —MLi 303. 1871 Pangenesis , Nature, Lond., 3

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most extreme fluctuations I have never been an Atheist in the sense of denying the existence of a God. I think that generally (and more and more as I grow older), but not always, that an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind —Aspects of scepticism, 1883. 1881 CD discussed his views with Aveling who published what he thought CD meant in The religious views of Charles Darwin, Freethought Publishing Company, 1883: Francis D felt that Aveling had misunderstood. For CD's

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theoretical biologist. 1871 CD to F, with invitation to visit Down House when he came to England—LLiii 193. 1874 F sent CD Outlines of cosmic philosophy, 2 vols, I never in my life read so lucid an exposition —MLi 333. 1879 Darwinism and other essays, London. 1884 Excursions of an evolutionist, London. 1884 The destiny of man viewed in the light of his origin, Boston. 1885 The idea of God as affected by modern knowledge, London. Fitton, William Henry, 1780-1861. Physician and geologist. 1815 FRS. 1838

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of his Natural Theology gave me as much delight as did Euclid . I did not at this time trouble myself about Paley's premises —Barlow, Autobiography 59. DNB. 1763 Senior Wrangler, Cambridge. 1782 Archdeacon of Carlisle. 1802 Author of Natural theology, London, which is largely a crib from John Ray's Wisdom of God, London 1691. Pampas woodpecker 1870 Notes on the habits of the pampas woodpecker (Colaptes campestris) , Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., No. 47:705-706 (Bii 161, F1750). The last sentence in

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problems in the Lepidoptera. 1867 Dec. T stayed at Down House. 1868 Mar. T lunched with CD at 4 Chester Terrace, London house of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood [II]. 1883 FRS. Tristram, Henry Baker, 1822-1906. Anglican clergyman and ornithologist. DNB. 1859 T at first accepted Origin, but was later against. 1860 T to Newton, The infallibility of the God Darwin and prophet Huxley —Life of Newton 122. 1868 FRS. Trotty , or Trotty Veck Childhood nickname of Henrietta Emma D. Trowmers House at Luxted Rd

A544    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2007. Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? Notes and Records of the Royal Society 61: 177-205.   Text   Image   PDF

Natural Selection to Evolution, ...meant displacing God from His position as a detailed Creator specially concerned with mankind. . One of them, Darwin, the one who stood in such awe of his own father, said it was 'like committing [sic] murder'—as, indeed, it was unconsciously; in fact, parricide. He paid the penalty in a crippling and lifelong neurosis, and in an astonishing display of modesty, hesitancy, and dubiety concerning his work.167 There are also insurmountable inconsistencies with

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convincing the international scientific community. An illustration of the English fantail from Darwin's The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication (1868) Darwin's scheme of the evolution of species, published in 1859, which demonstrated that all species are related on a single family 'tree of life' Myths and Mr Darwin The number of myths and legends about Darwin and evolution seems to be ever growing. One of the most common is that it is impossible to believe in god and evolution at the same

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spent over radically naturalistic works published in the preceding decades. Books like George Combe's The Constitution of Man (1828) and the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation (1844) had shocked readers far more with their visions of natural laws that controlled all of the universe, mankind included, leaving virtually no place for God. The later work was an evolutionary tour de force that began with the creation of the solar system from swirling clouds of dust and ended with

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conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws'. So, to religious thinkers of Kingsley's ilk, Darwin had uncovered a new law by which God governed the natural world. For such thinkers it was quite reasonable to reconcile Darwin's views with their religion. Probably the most famous episode in the reception

A194    Periodical contribution:     Darwin in Argentina. Revista de la Asociación Geológica Argentina 64, no. 1 (February 2009): 1-180.   Text   PDF

- uncle now dead (Darwin, 1837-1838 in Barret 1960). Woodward (1987) stated that by that time Darwin was also familiar with adaptation (The red notebook of Charles Darwin in Herbert 1980, p. 67), another important biological issue related to evolution, but an idea then associated with Natural Theology (Paley 1802), which argued that every organism was intentionally perfectly designed to its particular life conditions by God. But it was not only the idea, means and processes of evolution that

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of the building are not explained unless one can explain the shape of the stones of which it was built. Having exposed the fallacy of what has been called structuralism Darwin discusses Asa Gray's notion of what John Dewey called design on the installment plan. God, so to speak, has ordained the pattern of variation and thereby affected the overall pattern of evolution. But God would have ordained all sorts of other things, like the variations that have produced grotesque ornamental poultry

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Goodness of God, as Manifested in the Creation. Darwin responded to many of these Bridgewater Treatises in his writings. References: ODNB, NBG. Bridgman, Laura Dewey December 21, 1829 May 24, 1889 Hanover, New Hampshire, USA Boston, Massachusetts, USA American blind deaf-mute, deprived of her eyesight and hearing at the age of two by an attack of scarlet fever. Thus she was not, as Darwin believed, congenitally blind and deaf. Thanks to the efforts of Dr. S.G. Howe, head of the Perkins Institute

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and The Origin of Species, ch. 3 in Amigoni, D., and Wallace, J., eds., Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays. Manchester: Manchester Universty Press, p. 68-94. Berg, L. S., 1956. Charles Darwin as a zoologist, in Myrzaev, E. M., ed., Akademician L. S. Berg, Collected Works. Moskva: Izdastestvo Akademia Nayk, v. 1, p. 112-136; in Russian. Bergmann, Linda S., 1990. Reshaping the roles of man, God, and nature: Darwin's rhetoric in On the Origin of Species, in Slade, J

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Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore, Friday, January 1, 1909. New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 251-267. Hall, K. R. L., 1963. Some problems in the analysis and comparison of monkey and ape behavior, in Washburn, S. L., ed., Classification and Human Evolution. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, p. 273-300. Halliday, R. J., 1981. God and natural selection: some recent interpretations of the relation of Darwinism to Protestant belief. History of European Ideas, v. 2, p. 237-246

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The Descent of Man 1871-1971. Chicago: Aldine, p. 87-104. Mayr, Ernst, 1972. The nature of the Darwinian revolution. Science, v. 176, p. 981-989. Mayr, Ernst, 1973. The descent of man and sexual selection. Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Quaderno, v. 182, p. 33-48. Mayr, Ernst, 1974. Evolution and God: David L. Hull, Darwin and his Critics. Nature, v. 240, p. 285-286. Mayr, Ernst, 1977. Darwin and natural selection. American Scientist, v. 65, p. 321-327. Mayr, Ernst, 1977. The study of evolution

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? Cambridge: Harvard University Press, x + 371 p. Ruse, Michael, 2003. Belief in God in a Darwinian age, in Hodge, J., and Radick, G., eds., The Cambridge Companion to Darwin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 333-354. Ruse, Michael, 2005. The Darwinian revolution, as seen in 1979 and as seen twenty-five years later in 2004. Journal of the History of Biology, v. 38, no. 1, p. 3-17. Russell, E. S., 1916. Form and Function: a Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology. London: John Murray, ix

A690    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2010. 'Almighty God! what a wonderful discovery!': Did Charles Darwin really believe life came from space? Endeavour 34, no. 3, (September): 95-103.   Text

Wyhe, John van. 2010. 'Almighty God! what a wonderful discovery!': Did Charles Darwin really believe life came from space? Endeavour 34, no. 3, (September): 95-103. [page] 95 'Almighty God! What a wonderful discovery!': Did Charles Darwin really believe life came from space? John van Wyhe Departments of Biology and History, National University of Singapore, 14 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Singapore In the August 1881 issue of the New York magazine Science there is a long overlooked

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details in any other discussion of Hahn, and this may prove relevant to unravelling part of the mystery of the origin of the 'Almighty God!' statement in Science. Rachel concluded that 'It may be safely claimed that Dr. Hahn's book will prove to be one of the most important contributions to natural science of the present time.'23 In August 1881 another article by Rachel appeared in Science, the piece with which this story begins. In addition to the words attributed to Darwin already quoted above

A1283    Periodical contribution:     Wyhe, John van. 2011. Was Charles Darwin an Atheist? The public domain review (28 July).   Text   PDF

evidence for evolution was far less complete than it is now? The explanation is that for very many Victorians the choice was not between God and science, religion or evolution, but between different notions of how God designed nature. It was already widely accepted that fixed natural laws (or secondary laws) had been discovered that explained natural phenomena from astronomy and chemistry to physiology and geology. Darwin, it was believed, had simply discovered a new law of nature designed by God. And

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. Darwin, Francis ed. 1887. The life and letters of Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. Darwin, Leonard. 1929. Memories of Down House. The Nineteenth Century, vol. 106, pp. 118-123. Desmond, A. J. M. Moore. 1992. Darwin. Penguin. Foote, G. W. 1889. Darwin on God. London: Progressive publishing company. Glen, W. C. 1861. The acts regulating the duties of Justices of the Peace…2nd edn London: Shaw Sons. Greenwood, H. C. T. C. Martin 1874. A magisterial and police guide. London: Stevens Haynes. Hayman