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  • A fierce defender and popularizer of Darwinism, and a thinker who famously debated (and, it must be said, completely wiped the floor with) the Bishop of Oxford (Samuel Wilberforce) over Darwinism's merits and social consequences, Huxley coined the adjective agnostic in 1869, largely because he foresaw its strong philosophical need.

    Christopher Lane: Debates About Agnosticism Are As Old As The Concept Itself Christopher Lane 2011

  • The design theorists 'critique of Darwinism begins with Darwinism's failure as an empirically adequate scientific theory, not with its supposed incompatibility with with some system of religious belief … Their critique is not based on any supposed incompatibility between Christian revelation and Darwinism.

    Blast From the Past 2010

  • Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini authored Survival of the fittest theory: Darwinism's limits.

    About 'What Darwin Got Wrong' 2010

  • A fierce defender and popularizer of Darwinism, and a thinker who famously debated (and, it must be said, completely wiped the floor with) the Bishop of Oxford (Samuel Wilberforce) over Darwinism's merits and social consequences, Huxley coined the adjective agnostic in 1869, largely because he foresaw its strong philosophical need.

    Christopher Lane: Debates About Agnosticism Are As Old As The Concept Itself Christopher Lane 2011

  • Why, just because he could not imagine Darwinism's being false, while if it is true then a struggle for life must always be going on in every species.

    Assessing Causality 2008

  • Well, the movement certainly seems to hope that the study of consciousness will turn out to be "Darwinism's grave", as Denyse O'Leary, co-author with Beauregard of The Spiritual Brain, put it.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • But [the anniversary of Darwin's birthday] does remind us of another stitch, a bizarre one, in the fabric of Darwinism's moral legacy.

    Steven Newton: Darwin, Creationism, and Creation 2010

  • Darwinism's connection with eugenics, abortion and racism is a matter of historical record.

    Eric Michael Johnson: Intelligent Design Creationists Abuse Science and Victims of the Holocaust 2010

  • There is (as I said earlier) a contradiction at the very heart of the Cave Man way out of Darwinism's dilemma: the contradiction between holding that Darwinism is true and admitting that it is not true of our species now.

    Assessing Causality 2008

  • "As I will argue, mathematical probabilities and biochemical structures cannot support Darwinism's randomness, except at the margins of evolution."

    A Peaceful Eve 2007

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