TS II: Science and Religion (fall 2021)

The role of geology: the Devon controversy. (GyG)

Presentation: Rohan

Assigned reading:

Charles Darwin, "The question of whether each particular variation has been pre-ordained," from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, vol. 2 (1871), 430-432. (Polish translation [image 385]) (Russian translation) (German translation [image 574]) (Dutch translation) (French translation [image 469]) (Italian translation)

Francis Darwin, "Religion," from Life of Charles Darwin (London, 1892), 55-65.

J. Hedley Brooke, “Darwin and Victorian Christianity,” The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, ed. J. Hodge and G. Radick (2009), 197-219.

Further reading:

Phillip R. Sloan, "'The sense of sublimity': Darwin on nature and divinity," Osiris 16 (2001): 251-269.

D. B. Paul, “Darwin, Social Darwinism and Eugenics,” The Cambridge Companion to Darwin, ed. J. Hodge and G. Radick, (2009), 219-245.

T. Eagleton, Reason, Faith and Revolution, New Haven, 2009.

Adrian Desmond and James Moore, "Never an atheist," Darwin, The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist (1991), 622-637.

David Livingstone, "Re-placing Darwin and Christianity," in Numbers and Lindberg, When Science and Christianity Meet. 
Darwin is an obligatory topic in all the general surveys in the "Additional Resources" section.

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