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Fleeming Jenkin (the distinguished Scottish scientist who with Lord Kelvin spearheaded the laying of the transatlantic cable) was particularly scathing.

Hanegraaff and Thomas provide a model of how two men with differing positions on Christianity can challenge each other while remaining cordial.

Thomas and radio host Hank Hanegraaff discuss the fossil record’s challenge to Darwinism, Gould and Eldredge’s rescue attempt, and more.

People chose to believe what they wanted to believe in obedience to the then reigning intellectual fashion.

Charles Darwin, as we saw yesterday, pulled off an intellectual coup against the major thinkers of the Western tradition. How did he do it?

The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.

Darwinism, when viewed from a philosophical perspective, might more accurately be understood as a late sub-branch of ancient speculative thought.

What distinguished thinkers had long called out for its manifest absurdity was now, Phoenix-like, rising from the ashes.

How was it that a theory so poorly supported by the evidence nevertheless came to dominate the academy?

Bottom line: Darwin did not have a single scrap of empirical fieldwork to document his conjectures.