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Darwinism   /dˈɑrwɪnˌɪzəm/   Listen
Darwinism

noun
1.
A theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection.



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... portions of the Pentateuch, he became a hero with the whole High Church party, and even the more liberal among the bishops were cowed by the tempest of feeling which the case aroused. In the same period, many Oxford men can remember Bishop Wilberforce's attack upon Darwinism, and, somewhat later, Dean Burgon's University sermon which ended with the stirring peroration: Leave me my ancestors in Paradise, and I leave you yours in the Zoological Gardens!' From the same pulpit Liddon, a little before his death, ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge


Words linked to "Darwinism" :   theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution, evolutionism


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