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Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

Of Apes and Ancestors: Evolution, Christianity, and the Oxford Debate

Hesketh, Ian

Paperback

Religion General Sports GeneralEvolution

ISBN10: 1487526806
ISBN13: 9781487526801
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Jul 15 2020
Pages: 152
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Tell me, sir, is it on your grandmother's or your grandfather's side that you are descended from an ape?

In June of 1860, some of Britain's most influential scientific and religious authorities gathered in Oxford to hear a heated debate on the merits of Charles Darwin's recently published Origin of Species. The Bishop of Oxford, Soapy Samuel Wilberforce, clashed swords with Darwin's most outspoken supporter, Thomas Henry Huxley. The latter's triumph, amid quips about apes and ancestry, has become a mythologized event, symbolizing the supposed war between science and Christianity. But did the debate really happen in this way?

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