The Oxford debate where evolution triumphed over creationism

Illustration of Charles Darwin in the greenhouse at Down House

2024-09-03  618  中等

IT usually TAKES a rather long time for a worldview to become outmoded and replaced by a new one. But in the eyes of many scientists, a monumental shift took place on one day: June 30th 1860. It was then, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, that Thomas Huxley, an English biologist and representative of the new theory of evolution, bested in debate Samuel Wilberforce, the city’s bishop and (unsurprisingly) a biblical creationist.

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