Humanity and Teleology: Darwin, Wallace and Lyell Debate Natural Selection

Episode 1148 August 22, 2018 00:19:21
Humanity and Teleology: Darwin, Wallace and Lyell Debate Natural Selection
Intelligent Design the Future
Humanity and Teleology: Darwin, Wallace and Lyell Debate Natural Selection

Aug 22 2018 | 00:19:21

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, Michael Flannery, historian of science and emeritus professor from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discusses how Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder of the theory of evolution by natural selection, broke with Darwin by arguing that the rise of humans required something more than blind evolutionary mechanisms. As Flannery also notes, the great geologist Charles Lyell sided with Wallace in the debate, to Darwin’s dismay. Listen in to learn more about Lyell’s idea of uniformity, the pro-Darwinian origins of the journal Nature, and how professional dissent from Darwinism has existed and persisted ever since Read More ›

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