tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post8364019565033707503..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: The Thing Stands MuteUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-41095511970580711982014-06-30T17:00:43.701-05:002014-06-30T17:00:43.701-05:00About the Ruse essay you link to, you might find t...About the Ruse essay you link to, you might find this amusing and informative.<br /><br />http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jrlucas/legend.html<br /><br />"Huxley's view prevailed. It was partly that Darwinism won. Many of the difficulties urged against evolution in 1860 by Owen and others, though not those actually put forward by Wilberforce in his speech, were satisfactorily settled in the next few years. The geological record filled in many missing links. Satisfactory explanations of how electric eels or venomous snakes could have evolved were found. It became a good inductive hypothesis, as Wilberforce had all along allowed that it might. The Darwinians, who were a small minority in 1860, became the dominant majority over the next twenty years, but never lost the sense of being persecuted. This was partly a matter of Huxley's own personality. He had no love of ecclesiastics and was sure that science must be at odds with religion. Later in his life he is still remarkably resistant to the idea that there were clergymen who accepted evolution, even when actually faced with them.72 The fact that there were others who did not, including some like the archdeacon of Exeter at a later meeting of the British Association,73 fortified him in his prejudice that they were all obscurantist at heart. The quarrel between religion and science came about not because of what Wilberforce said, but because it was what Huxley wanted; and as Darwin's theory gained supporters, they took over his view of the incident."The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com