March 25, 2016
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Darwin made one of the greatest discoveries ever. But onto his discovery he projected a myth of evolution through war, extermination, disease and death drawn from Victorian capitalism.
He presents Natural Selection to us in terms of a causally purposeful external agency as mythical as any god.
War, extermination, disease and death do not cause anything. Natural selection is not a cause but a consequence.
The young Darwin's experiences of nature during his Beagle voyage were ecstatically sublime, recorded in his journal by one of the greatest prose poets who has ever written in English.
The young Darwin's experiences of nature during his Beagle voyage were ecstatically sublime, recorded in his journal by one of the greatest prose poets who has ever written in English.
But in middle age this wonderful man died emotionally in the most extraordinary way. It is surely one of the greatest tragedies that has ever happened in the history of science.
Little of the glory and wonder of nature that he had actually experienced in South America made it into The Origin of Species. He over-emphasized the role of death, war and extermination in a way that has misled and perhaps even damaged us all.
Biography of Thomas Jackson
Thomas Jackson is a former Benedictine monk now happily married and a full-time writer. As a young theology student I was made to study Medieval theological texts in Latin which at that period of my life seemed to me to be a ludicrous waste of time.
Now I think exposure to the mind of Aquinas was one of the most precious things that have ever happened to me. I left the monastery partly because all the praying didn’t mean all that much to me either. Now, somewhat to my surprise, it does.
Contemplative prayer has become extremely important, as is the numinous presence of the divine in nature. This is why I have become so interested in Darwin’s Beagle Journal.
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