To: gobucks
Thomas Huxley wasn't the only atheistic philosopher that really liked Darwin's theory. Karl Marx wrote Charles Darwin and asked him if he could dedicate the second volume of Das Capital to Darwin...Darwin refused.
12 posted on
10/24/2005 6:38:16 PM PDT by
Mogollon
To: Mogollon
"Thomas Huxley wasn't the only atheistic philosopher that really liked Darwin's theory. "
Actually, Huxley was never more than luke warm about Natural Selection. Natural Selection didn't become the accepted mechanism for most evolutionary biologists until the 1930's when Darwin was joined with a more mature version of Mendelian genetics.
As for Marx, he grabbed onto evolution only because he misread Darwin's idea of a struggle for existence in nature (which is undeniable) with class struggle. Darwin, a free market Whig, had never intended his theory to be used in political philosophy.
13 posted on
10/24/2005 7:01:42 PM PDT by
CarolinaGuitarman
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