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Editorial

God or Nature?

by Grant Bartley

This would have been a big year for Darwin, if he had been fit enough to survive this long. The intellectual fact of 2009 is that it’s Darwin’s bicentenary (February 12th), and the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the publication of On The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection (November 24th). In this issue we explore some of the philosophical fallout of Darwin’s thought explosion, including a featurette on evolutionary ethics and a focus on some of Darwin’s intellectual disciples, notably Spencer, Huxley and Dewey. But let me comment briefly on the religious vs science debate.

Many atheists will celebrate the current Darwin promotion as further evidence of the evolution of society away from a primitive abyss of reasonless superstition.

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