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Entre el Dios de Paley y el Dios de Bonnet: El Parco Evolucionismo Teísta de Richard Owen

2013; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE SANTA CATARINA; Volume: 17; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5007/1808-1711.2013v17n1p71

ISSN

1808-1711

Autores

Gustavo Caponi,

Tópico(s)

Philosophy and History of Science

Resumo

Firstly, in this article it is examined the nature of the putative remarks concerning evolution of species that are found in the works that Richard Owen published before 1858; and then it is made the same thing with the few and vague evolutionist conjectures that Owen certainly made after the public presentation of Natural Selection Theory. Regarding the former topic, the goal will be to highlight the ambiguity of those Owen’s remarks, and concerning the latter topic what is looked for is to show that, when he explained his transmutationist thesis, Owen didn’t go beyond a pious theistic evolutionism, without postulating any mechanism of evolutionary change and remaining faithful to Design Theology praised by Paley.

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