Author : J. David Pleins
Release : 2014-06-19
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 944/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis In Praise of Darwin by : J. David Pleins
Download or read book In Praise of Darwin written by J. David Pleins. This book was released on 2014-06-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George John Romanes, close friend and colleague of Darwin, remains a misunderstood figure in the history of evolutionary science. Although his scientific contributions have been valued, his religious journey has been either neglected or misjudged. Typically scholars only acknowledge some of the work on theism he did at the very end of his life and usually blame his wife for doctoring the record with her pieties. His extensive poetry writing, much of it religious, has never been explored and his "Memorial Poem" to Darwin has been completely overlooked. The recent discovery of the original typescript of the poem, lost for more than a century and reprinted in this book for the first time, allows us to enter the mind of a major Darwinian as we watch him struggle to put together faith and science on a positive basis.