Act 4 Scene 1 the Presentation
the Linnean Society
some letters and an abstract from Darwin followed by Wallace’s
“On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type”
this is amplified by a growing chorus of Darwin working furiously, in a Gilbert and Sullivan style, to produce
On the Origin of Species by Way of Natural Selection and the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
Henslow Lyell Hooker
These things don’t all happen at once
Grain upon grain upon grain drop upon drop reprise with Wallace
To stand here today before you
With evidence of change
Profound and strange
in eons, epochs, hundreds of millions of years
with enough time anything is possible
Voices of Ghosts
Voices in Books
Surely we are communicating with our Ancestors through literature
By way of explanation - (Darwin) ‘seeded in the good is the bad’ Malthus
its really rather simple
I don’t understand what all the fuss is about
things change
and the more they change the more they stray from the same
until divergent
Teleology? argument against
from Charles Hodge...
“If god made them, it makes no difference, so far as the question of design is concerned,
how He made them: whether at once or by a process of evolution.
BUT
instead of referring them to the purpose of God,
he laboriously endeavors to prove that they may be accounted for without any design or purpose whatever...”
footnote Darwin’s personification of Nature mid 2 ‘flying Dutchman
these scriptural accounts no longer work well for me
they fail to satisfy my curiosity
“Great minds think alike – fools seldom differ”
Win/win, Win/lose zero sum games
“Natural Theology” - How God did it.... - Lyell and Hutton
and “What is Darwinism?” - Charles Hodge
Thomas Scott Nelson ©
last modified
September 21, 2020