The Earth Is Our Home by Nelson Rivera

Author:Nelson Rivera
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Midgley, philosophy, evolution, philosophy of evolution, planet, Earth, complexity, organism, cultural history, evolutionary epistemology, view from below, teleology, metaphysics, theology, evolutionary theory, faith, biological evolution
ISBN: 9781845404871
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited 2016
Published: 2016-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

2 According to Richard Morris in The Evolutionists: The Struggle for Darwin’s Soul (New York: Henry Holt, 2001), 53; on this point, Morris follows the lead of famed German American biologist Ernst Mayr.

3 See, for example, John Dupré, Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2003), 12.

4 See, Edward J. Larson, Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (New York: The Modern Library, 2004), 13–15, 66. Larson argues that during the eighteenth century, ideas about organic evolution were introduced in the writings of the French scientist Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707–1788), especially in his treatise, Natural History, published in 44 volumes over an extended period of his productive career. Buffon developed his conception of a materialistic origin to life and species as an alternative to the traditional Christian views of creation. After Buffon, it was Erasmus Darwin (1731–1802), Charles Darwin’s grandfather, who took the banner of organic evolution and presented it in a highly original and poetic work, Zoonomia, published between 1794 and 1796. The problem with both of the predecessors, though not really precursors, of Charles Darwin was that their work contained very little or no scientific research properly speaking. Above all, it was Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Molet, chevalier de Lamarck (1744–1829) who offered a scientifically argued, although not always credible, “transmutation hypothesis.” More about Lamarck’s views later in this chapter.

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