Comments on: Darwin’s Bulldog https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Laelaps https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10564 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:47:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10564 After reading many of Huxley’s works it is surprising how Darwin and natural selection are almost never mentioned; Huxley seemed to be more concerned with figuring out transitions in the fossil record between groups (like his Sauropsida, which was reptiles + birds) than how it happened. he did defend Darwin in this way and definitely was struck by Darwin’s idea, but his own views were much more nuanced than we often realize.Likewise, Huxley never debated Wilberforce. During a series of lectures on creation/evolution at Oxford in the summer of 1860 Wilberforce made some snide comment to young Huxley who was in the audience. Huxley responded but from the accounts given most people didn’t even hear him and it ended up being a minor point and was not an actual debate in any sense of the word.

]]> By: JanieBelle https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10563 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:48:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10563 I’m guessing Huxley would have won that debate had it occurred in 1960.”Step into my Tardis, and I’ll show you…”

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10562 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:35:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10562 So, maybe they were debating the reality of Time Machines…

]]> By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10561 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:46:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10561 Who was the medium?

]]> By: clinteas https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10560 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:09:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10560 Whats 100 years anyway,when youre in love LOL…..

]]> By: JanieBelle https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10559 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:03:48 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10559 No, unfortunately, Amanda beat me to His Hunkiness.I’m a gracious loser, though.:)

]]> By: clinteas https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10558 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:56:50 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10558 Dont be too harsh on him JanieBelle…..You 2 some sort of Sartre and DeBeauvoir by the way? LOL

]]> By: JanieBelle https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10557 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:32:10 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/06/29/darwins-bulldog/#comment-10557

On this day in 1895, Th. H. Huxley died at the age of 70. Huxley was known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” because of his defense of Darwin’s important work in evolution. He debated Samuel Wilberforce in 1960…

I love you dearly, Greg, but you need an editor, darling.;)Kisses

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