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Charles Darwin Gets the Hook to Jane Austen on British Currency!

__________ Charles Darwin has been on the ten pound bank-note for over a decade, but now The Guardian reports that Jane Austen is about to take a turn there: Austen will take her place on the £10 note in 2017, … Continue reading

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Is Evolution Not Just True, But Good (Something To Be Embraced)?

Jared Burton has written a beautiful and soulful folk song capturing humanity’s uncomfortable and ambivalent relationship to evolution. I find the lyrics emotionally and intellectually challenging. But I can’t decide if I agree or not with the orientation to Nature … Continue reading

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Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” in the Light of Bruce Hornsby’s “Mandolin Rain”

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Evolution v. Creation Metaphor Watch: Can Reading the Novels of Jane Austen Give Us Access to the Inner Life of Charles Darwin—and the Dynamics of Sexual Selection?

More than a few observers have made analogies between the life and ideas of Charles Darwin and the novels of Jane Austen. These analogies tend to arrive in two forms: Jane Austen’s novels, it is claimed, give us a way … Continue reading

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