• Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause is “Historical Fiction”

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Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause is “Historical Fiction”

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  • On today’s ID the Future from our archive, historian of science Michael Keas concludes a two-part conversation with science-and-religion scholar Robert Shedinger about his research into the writing and work of 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin. In this segment, Shedinger makes the case that a well-known biography of Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, is deeply misleading. Specifically, the book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Shedinger says not so fast. Shedinger saw no evidence of this thesis in Darwin’s correspondence. He reports on the pattern that emerged when he tracked down the key citations and re-read the book. The sources the authors cite didn’t actually support their Read More ›

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On today’s ID the Future from our archive, historian of science Michael Keas concludes a two-part conversation with science-and-religion scholar Robert Shedinger about his research into the writing and work of 19th century naturalist Charles Darwin. In this segment, Shedinger makes the case that a well-known biography of Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, is deeply misleading. Specifically, the book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Shedinger says not so fast. Shedinger saw no evidence of this thesis in Darwin’s correspondence. He reports on the pattern that emerged when he tracked down the key citations and re-read the book. The sources the authors cite didn’t actually support their Read More ›

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