Wilberforce and Huxley: A Legendary Encounter
The encounter between Bishop Samuel Wilberforce ("Soapy Sam") and T.H. Huxley ("Darwin's bulldog") is often portrayed as a typical example…
Fictional Absence
Appendix 1: The Possibility of Providence
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Chapter 4: After the Funeral
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Chapter 2: The Eighteenth Century
Did Paul and Constantine invent Christianity?
Some people claim that the apostle Paul and later Emperor Constantine changed the pristine religion preached by Jesus for their own ends.…
1859 and all that...
In 1859, Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species, and the debate about how his theory of evolution relates to the first few…
Messiah: Jesus, the evidence of history
What historical evidence is there for the life of Jesus and the first Christians?