Evolution and dogma

Evolution and dogma

Author: Zahm, John Augustine, 1851-1921

Year: 1896

TABLE OF CONTENTS. Introduction. xiii PART I. EVOLUTION, PAST AND PRESENT. CHAPTER I. NATURE AND SCOPE OF EVOLUTION. Early Speculations Regarding Nature and Man — Comprehensiveness of Evolution — Evolution Defined — Literature of Evolution — Freedom from Bias in the Discussion of Evolution 13-22 CHAPTER II. EARLY EVOLUTIONARY VIEWS. First Studies of Nature — Evolution Among the Greeks — Aristotle's Observations — Mediaeval Writers 23-30 CHAPTER III. FOSSILS AND GIANTS. Early Notions Regarding Fossils — Italian Geologists on Fossils — Legends About Giants — True Significance of Fossils — Controversy in the French Academy 31-40 CHAPTER IV. SPONTANEOUS GENERATION AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY. Early Views Regarding Abiogenesis — Fathers and Schoolmen on Abiogenesis — Redi's Experiments — Later Researches — General Advance in Science — Chemistry and Astronomy — Testimony of Biology 41-54 CHAPTER V. FROM LORD BACON TO CHARLES DARWIN. First Materials for the Controversy — Bacon and Kant — Linnaeus and Buffon — Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck — Species and Varieties 55-64 CHAPTER VI. CONTROVERSY AND PROGRESS. Darwin's "Origin of Species" — Herbert Spencer and Compeers — Science and Philosophy — Ant