Posts Tagged ‘uniformitarianism’

A Creation Neither Perfect Nor Complete - Darwin and Early Theories of Evolution

In this the 150th anniversary year of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (and the 200th anniversary year of his birth), it is worth returning to that era of profound discovery and re-examining some of the controversies and earlier evolutionary theories begotten in the years just preceding its publication. Today (and ever since Origin), the core, controversial idea of evolution tends to be rather simplistically summed up as: we are descended from apes. Of course, Darwinism, as [...]

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