Epicurus and Natural Selection | Evolution News
The classical pantheon, lacking moral credibility, had become a source of embarrassment to thoughtful Greeks.
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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.