Immediate Reactions to Darwin: The English Catholic Press' First Reviews of the ‘Origin of the Species’

Lyon, John

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“…The reviewer signed himself “R.S.” but readers would immediately have known that the letters stood for Richard Simpson, an earlier editor of the journal. Simpson was a convert to Catholicism who had already published several combative essays on the relationship of Catholicism to contemporary philosophy and science (Lyon 1972). In philosophy of science he was an inductivist, as were so many at that time, willing to admit the use of hypothesis but only in terms of its utility.…”

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Darwin and the Other Christian Tradition

McMullin

2011

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Augustine, and following him some major theologians of the early Christian church, noted the apparent discrepancies between the first two chapters of Genesis and suggested an interpretation for these chapters significantly different from the literal. After examining a selection of the relevant texts, we shall follow the later fortunes of this interpretation in brief outline, figuring in particular an unlikely trio: Suarez, St. George Mivart, and Thomas Henry Huxley. Moral: Darwinian theory might plausibly be construed as implementing, unawares, a suggestion from that other Christian tradition.

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Darwin and the Other Christian Tradition

McMullin

2011

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“…On the interaction of Catholicism and Darwinian thought, see John L. Morrison (), John Rickards Betts (), John Lyon (), Robert Scott Appleby (), Don O'Leary (), and the collection of essays in Louis Caruana's edited volume Darwin and Catholicism ().…”

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The Scientific Allegory of John Augustine Zahm: Zahm's Theological Method With Insight From Marie‐joseph Lagrange

Moscicke¹

2016

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Catholic modernist John Augustine Zahm is best known for his attempt to reconcile the theory of evolution with the Christian scriptures. However, Zahm's theological method—the underlying principles and procedures in his effort to reconcile faith and science—remains largely unexamined. In this article, I analyze Zahm's theological method and submit that it is an attempt to harmonize scientific knowledge and Christian scripture through a “scientific allegory” of the bible, which takes into account the human and divine meanings of scripture, the exegesis of the church fathers, and the dogmatic constitutions of the Catholic church. I compare Zahm's method with that of pioneering Catholic bible critic Marie‐Joseph Lagrange, and his conception of biblical inspiration and the supra‐literal sense of scripture. Through this historical investigation, I hope to contribute to the question of the relationship between modern science and Christian hermeneutics.

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“…vestigial) traits, to the reappearance of ancestral traits. The Origin was debated extensively at the time of publication (Gillham, 2015;Lucas, 1979;Lyon, 1972), and remains one of the most studied and influential manuscripts in the history of science, having been cited nearly sixty thousand times (Brooks, 2011;Crkvenjakov & Heng, 2022;Schluter, 2001;Tobler et al, 2019;West-Eberhard, 2005).…”

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Methods for interpreting an untested Darwinian conjecture

Dreessen

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Intraspecific variations are the differences in traits among individuals of the same species.These variations are what natural selection acts on, and thus are crucial to evolution by natural selection as proposed by Charles Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. In this text, Darwin proposed multiple sources of intraspecific variation although one of them has yet to be studied despite having been published more than 150 years ago. Darwin explained that traits which are extraordinary compared to the same trait in closely related species ought to be highly variable. In this thesis, I provide possible interpretations of this conjecture, and construct distinct methodologies for testing each interpretation. The quantity and quality of data collected did not allow a decisive test of the conjecture; however, the interpretations and methods described herein may be used to guide future work once the appropriate data are published.

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Immediate Reactions to Darwin: The English Catholic Press' First Reviews of the ‘Origin of the Species’

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Darwin and the Other Christian Tradition

Darwin and the Other Christian Tradition

The Scientific Allegory of John Augustine Zahm: Zahm's Theological Method With Insight From Marie‐joseph Lagrange

Methods for interpreting an untested Darwinian conjecture

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