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Interview with John Hedley Brooke
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John Hedley Brooke is President of the Science and Religion Forum as well as the author of the influential Science and Religion: Some Historical Perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 1991). He has had a long career in the history of science and…
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- … in the 19th century, over spiritualism. Darwin’s close scientific colleague and friend, Alfred …
- … given up the path of science: that in fact there is good scientific evidence for the existence of …
- … both a religion, and a science. In what sense was it open to scientific investigation, and were …
- … I think, did feel quite genuinely that you could perform scientific experiments at least to test …
- … make predictions that can be tested in the way that most scientific research programs can. In other …
- … kind of intelligence behind nature once was constitutive of scientific practice and belief. …
- … the thesis that over the course of history, the advance of scientific knowledge had actually …
- … openness ? or attempt ? amongst some to take on board scientific approaches and scientific …
- … was not always transparently clear, because within the scientific community itself, there were …
- … in a sense that reflects the wider problem that the scientific community itself was having over how …
- … is a very slippery one, and the relationship between scientific advance and secularization is …
- … whereby science itself becomes secularized in the sense that scientific texts after Darwin very …
- … of the world are being scienti stic rather than scientific, in the sense that they are making …
- … dominates their life. 9. The rise of confrontation in science-religion …
- … debate that it was part of the tradition of the scientific gentleman in the early 19th century not …
- … religion explicitly and openly, by, for example, using scientific theory to call into question its …
- … is something of an artefact: the real antagonism is between scientific truth and theological dogma. …
- … kinds of responses to nature need not be obliterated by scientific advance. So, I think we do …
- … ? I mean, certainly in his conviction ? that scientific knowledge and its advance would …
- … science is supposed to depend upon a unique method, the scientific method, as it’s often called, …
- … issues about even the propriety of talking about a unified scientific method. It belongs more to the …
- … the claims they wish to make ? and to celebrate a unique scientific method is one way in which you …
- … right up to the time that Darwin was working, and in popular scientific literature for long …
- … Bacon , who’s often seen as the, kind of, father of the scientific method, and a great visionary in …
- … is often celebrated as the secular thinker who says that scientific and religious explorations and …
Terms of engagement: To Julius Wiesner, 25 October 1881
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Thomas Huxley’s pugnacious public defence of evolution led to his nickname ‘Darwin’s bulldog’ and to a view of Darwin as an evader of controversy. Darwin firmly believed that controversy rarely did any good, but this did not mean that he avoided challenges…
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- … clearly conveys his view that science advanced not through confrontation, but the combination of …
- … from your example; for the coarse language often used by scientific men towards each other does no …
Darwin and religion in America
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Thomas Dixon, 'America’s Difficulty with Darwin', History Today (2009), reproduced by permission. Darwin has not been forgotten. But he has, in some respects, been misremembered. That has certainly been true when it comes to the relationship…
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- … Darwin and God. Battle has been joined with equal vigour by scientific atheists and religious …
- … At a more cerebral level, it shed little light on the scientific questions that most fascinated him. …
- … was a sensitive one throughout their marriage. Religious controversy would also, Darwin knew, be …
- … is an aphorism from the seventeenth-century philosopher and scientific pioneer, Francis Bacon, …
- … by the time Darwin died, his theory had been accepted by the scientific establishment and was well …
- … religious strife that led directly to the confrontation between Darwinism and creationism in the …
- … launched in 1957, led to a national panic over American scientific standards from school level …
- … terrorism. The axe trying to cut down the tree was called ‘Scientific Creationism.’ The route …
- … was no longer allowed. And it was to this problem that ‘Scientific Creationism’ and ‘Intelligent …
- … evolved by variation and natural selection alone. Like ‘Scientific Creationism’, this has been …
- … twentieth century provided a unique context within which ‘Scientific Creationism’ and ‘Intelligent …
- … if the United States wants finally to come to terms with the scientific discoveries of the great …
Darwin in letters, 1860: Answering critics
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On 7 January 1860, John Murray published the second edition of Darwin’s Origin of species, printing off another 3000 copies to satisfy the demands of an audience that surprised both the publisher and the author. It wasn't long, however, before ‘the…
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- … : reactions and reviews But it was the opinion of scientific men that was Darwin’s main …
- … Appendix VII.) The difficulties that members of the scientific community found in Origin …
- … different from saying that I depart from right principles of scientific investigation.—’ ( letter …
- … to explain why Darwin was delighted by the defence of his scientific method by the young Cambridge …
- … John Stuart Mill’s exposition of the deductive method of scientific investigation, consisting of …
- … were raised against the theory on the basis of existing scientific evidence. Several correspondents, …
- … kept away by illness, was glad to have avoided such public confrontation. ‘I would as soon have died …
- … addressed the question of man, among other difficult scientific problems, and set the tone for …
- … by Henslow’s defence of the integrity of Darwin’s scientific motivation, Sedgwick admitted that he …
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