{"id":4383,"date":"2009-02-12T01:42:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T01:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=4383"},"modified":"2009-02-12T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T16:55:35","slug":"darwin-at-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2009\/02\/12\/darwin-at-200\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin at 200"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Man is But a Worm by Edward Linley Sambourne (1882).<\/em><\/p>\n

Happy birthday Charles Darwin. The reaction to Darwin’s work from Punch<\/em> and other<\/a> journals<\/a> was typical. While his studies remain controversial among those who believe there were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark<\/a>, his life and work are now celebrated on the Bank of England’s Ten Pound Note<\/a> (but with the wrong kind of bird<\/a>, it seems). Dogmatists take note: the Vatican is no longer on your side<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Father Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti, Professor of Theology at the Pontifical Santa Croce University in Rome, said that Darwin had been anticipated by St Augustine of Hippo. The 4th-century theologian had \u201cnever heard the term evolution, but knew that big fish eat smaller fish\u201d and that forms of life had been transformed \u201cslowly over time\u201d. Aquinas had made similar observations in the Middle Ages, he added.<\/p>\n

He said it was time that theologians as well as scientists grappled with the mysteries of genetic codes and \u201cwhether the diversification of life forms is the result of competition or cooperation between species\u201d. As for the origins of Man, although we shared 97 per cent of our \u201cgenetic inheritance\u201d with apes, the remaining 3 per cent \u201cis what makes us unique\u201d, including religion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI maintain that the idea of evolution has a place in Christian theology,\u201d Professor Tanzella-Nitti added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Edward Linley Sambourne provided Punch<\/em> with many caricatures of Victorian notables including the famous one of Oscar Wilde undergoing his own process of evolution by turning into a sunflower<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dawkins on Darwin<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 \u201cWeirdsley Daubery\u201d: Beardsley and Punch<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Poet and the Pope<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man is But a Worm by Edward Linley Sambourne (1882). Happy birthday Charles Darwin. The reaction to Darwin’s work from Punch and other journals was typical. While his studies remain controversial among those who believe there were dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark, his life and work are now celebrated on the Bank of England’s Ten Pound … Continue reading “Darwin at 200”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,48,31,13],"tags":[175,230,116],"class_list":["post-4383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-illustrators","category-religion","category-science","tag-charles-darwin","tag-edward-linley-sambourne","tag-oscar-wilde"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-18H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}