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SUMMARY:The Secret History of Victorian Evolution - Prof. Jim Secord\, Dep
 t. of History and Philosophy of Science
DTSTART:20090512T120000Z
DTEND:20090512T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Zoe Binns
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers a broad\, and sometimes unexpected\, perspect
 ive on the seemingly familiar picture of Victorian debates about evolution
  and religion. As is well known\, many authors had proposed evolutionary t
 heories long before Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' appeared i
 n 1859. What is often forgotten--particularly in the current 150th anniver
 sary celebrations--is that there was a vibrant and sometimes virulent cont
 roversy about species from the mid-1840s onwards\, which brought the entir
 e question into public view\, particularly in its theological dimensions..
  This was sparked by the anonymous 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Cre
 ation' (1844). Yet Vestiges was in many ways a mysterious work. Its author
  was unknown for forty years\, and although outwardly orthodox\, the book 
 seemed to many to be a pill of rank atheism. By comparison\, Darwin's "dan
 gerous idea" was generally thought compatible with Christian orthodoxy. Ho
 w could this be the case?
LOCATION:The Garden Room\, St Edmund's College
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