THE EVOLUTION OF EVOLUTION
St. George Jackson Mivart
Introduction by Gary Furnell
Paperback, 80 pages, $19.95
ISBN 9781922815538
June 2023 release
Philosophical Notes: Asking questions on philosophical questions
Mivart’s essay on evolution rewards the meditative reader. Mivart
provides a brief but cogent outline of the changing circumstances and
variations in thought that over centuries facilitated the development of
naturalism and atheistic evolution. This sort of background is
particularly useful because each generation, enmeshed in the peculiar
conditions of their own time, often neglects to explore the past
cultural twists, oversights, discoveries and aberrations that led to
today’s assumptions and outlook. Mivart also highlights the internal
contradictions that fracture naturalism and he indicates some of the
problems in the evidence used to support atheistic evolution. These
fractures and variations of these evidential problems remain today.
