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special evolution entirely inoffensive. One of Darwin’s earliest and most vigorous champions, the extremely accomplished American botanist Asa Gray (1810–88), was a devout Christian who saw such evolution as a manifestation of God’s creative power in the fabric of nature.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
special evolution entirely inoffensive. One of Darwin’s earliest and most vigorous champions, the extremely accomplished American botanist Asa Gray (1810–88), was a devout Christian who saw such evolution as a manifestation of God’s creative power in the fabric of nature.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
Darwin, Charles. Voyage of the Beagle. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2002.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
Darwin was a nativist about morality: he thought that natural selection gave us minds that were preloaded with moral emotions.
Jonathan Haidt • The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
the very cofounder of the theory of evolution was an intelligent-design proponent.
Michael J. Behe • Darwin Devolves: The New Science About DNA That Challenges Evolution
In even approximate equilibrium, the variability Darwin both required and demonstrated existed was in conflict with the observed short-term stability in populations.
Stephen M. Stigler • The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
Gruber’s Darwin on Man is both the canonical study of Darwin’s intellectual journey toward the idea of natural selection and one of the most insightful books on scientific creativity ever written.