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After reading Malthus out of personal interest, it dawned on Darwin how he might usefully appropriate the Malthusian analogy.

Erasmus even touched on the theory of natural selection when he concluded that the strongest and most active animals would propagate the species.

Catastrophism viewed the planet as having been molded by forces far more powerful than any observable at the present day.

Remarkably, Darwin’s evolutionary ideas did not derive from his empirical observations in the South Seas or anywhere else.

Denis Diderot mooted the possibility of a creature evolving through habitual functioning into another form of life altogether.

Any attempt to demonstrate the sheer untenability of Darwinian postulates is just met with an ever-closer circling of the wagons.

Alfred Wallace was arguing his position from simple logic rather than on the authority of revelation from any of the Abrahamic faiths.

Our profound ignorance of what Lucretius termed the nature of things has been revealed by the work of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg.

The inference to a First Cause has begun to percolate down to people who hold no prior allegiance to any of the world’s accredited religions.

The year 2021 witnessed the publication of three similarly but not identically themed books which all oppose the current evolutionary paradigm.