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This sounds counterintuitive. But there are biblical and cultural reasons for believing it.

Some three hundred years ago in the early 1700s, in a small village in the Champagne region of France, there lived a humble Catholic priest who dutifully led mass, administered the sacraments, oversaw baptisms and funerals, and kindly tended to the existential needs of his flock. All the while, ...

As with any myth, there’s truth and then there’s Truth.

Of immediate relevance to Darwin’s generation were writers who can be traced in a fairly direct line from the beginning of the 19th century.

As Alec Ryrie pointed out in his history of Doubt, “intellectuals and philosophers may think they make the weather, but they are more often driven by it.”