This text presents an overview of the intellectual revolution that took place in the two centuries which separate Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. It describes the impact of a mechanical view of the natural world, which led to a crumbling of traditional ideas on nature and natural science.
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Good for historical perspective on the creation-evolution wars,
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This book comprehensively surveys the development of evolutionary ideas from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The book is sympathetic to the resistance these deeply pious thinkers felt to the implications of the most natural interpretations of what the data that they were collecting. The book is scholarly and not for those seeking a sound-bite.
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