Note Bolded words are right from the PowerPoint lecture regular words are just ideas we talked about things our professor said that I summed up 2 1814 Preconditions to Darwin Me and Chucky D Lecture 12 Kind of a big deal Recommendation Read The Darwinian Revolution Where are we Imperial transition and natural history Legacy of the Enlightenment Progress Reform Mastery Understanding Romanticism Reason Romanticism as the Coma of Reason the state of science and society Gentlemen new level created with influx of money flowing into British Empire Religion 19th century the sun never set on the British Empire is seen here in its truest expression allowed extensive travel British are everywhere lot of money created new level of gentlemen sought fortunes in natural world natural world becomes source of wealth creates new respectable source of science Charles Waterton taxidermist put parts of animals together to politically protest the British national debt there able to travel the globe people couldn t really argue with his stuff because he was like well you weren t legacy from Enlightenment natural history and natural world can provide model on which to base society progress Why did Darwin have success with such controversial issues when others did not we ll talk about it next Tuesday The Question How old is the earth Catastrophism world relatively new catastrophes account for change such as the Flood Uniformitarianism idea that the earth is really old and we shouldn t be looking to causes to look to geological changes apply same logic around us to geological past don t make up catastrophes Darwin was one of these guys Charles Lyell The Principles of Geology 1830 Do species change the extinction issue extinction is a blot on idea of God s creation God can make mistakes Religion is still very intertwined with education teaching knowledge Ex some university had to be inducted or something by the church to graduate or something like that Lamarck says species change extinction happens French during French Rev he can say what he wants his theory was cleaner nicer than Darwin picture shows that Lamarck just says that nature wants evolution so it happens while Darwin s idea shows the baby giraffe with a short neck dying as its longer necked peers survive Cuvier didn t agree with Lamarck reconstructed animals from tooth or something very much against idea of evolution expert in fossil records said reason why it looks like animals are changing over time is because we don t have a complete record where it does indicate change we re wrong Robert Chambers tried to appeal to middle class non scientific people to show them that species do change transmutation saying it so that it could be reflected in society used evolution as political propaganda his point wasn t science it was the message many scientists rejected his ideas because they were out there didn t make sense big thing was that he cleared the path so that the scientific counterpart of Darwin was able to be more accepted in society How reliable is the Bible 2 25 14 The Darwinian Reception Lecture 13 Recap Movie Was evolution a new idea not really didn t spring out of nowhere part of a long process starts in 18th cent picks up wi 19th cent Britain ripe for change technological revolution enables scientists to go out and explore and stuff make progress Darwin s big idea natural selection doesn t grant organisms what they need random differences that arise in species certain differences allow species to prosper variations cause better competitive advantage nature as red and tooth and claw Publication Long time developing Status in British Scientific society Darwin was a pretty big deal really involved in scientific society community wealthy and intelligent Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation his peers hated this because it was less scientific more combative Alfred Russel Wallace The importance of status not rich but loved science collected stuff like Darwin did 8 years everything except journals burned in a ship fire bad luck chuck Malaysia awesome work gets yellow fever Conspiracy Some theorists say that Darwin totally stole his work Wallace s published with the disclaimer that Darwin had precedence Wallace okay with this pushed Darwin to publish November 24th 1859 sold out in one day Darwin not a sensationalist but he was a sensation 1859 marks a turning point Scientific Response Darwin s Friends it is because of his status and his friends that his theory is accepted Henry Bates moths have changed colors because of the smoke we have around that s what Darwin s theory predicts Asa Gray American says Darwin is right scientifically but we need to rethink some moral things intelligent design there can still be a purpose to life we still need design mechanism aside from nature Alfred Russel Wallace preeminent work to refine theory supports Darwin no matter what Thomas Henry Huxley preeminent work to refine theory becomes known as Darwin s bulldog didn t necessarily agree 100 not blind followers of Darwin work to help address problems as a framework Darwin s theory is still brilliant The Question of design is there intelligent design Critique a lot of scientists had The Question of Time William Thomson best guess was around 50 million years this wasn t nearly enough time for Darwin s theory to work with this number for his idea to be right had to figure out either how the earth was older or how his theory could work in less time Strategy for acceptance a lot of older scientists who argued but he had a conjuring of young friends waiting for old arguers to die convince certain generation and wait for older generation to die The Response of Society Influenced by scientific response Wilberforce Vs Huxley 1860 the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny One of first out and out confrontations where science seems to come out as the victor both sides are very certain that they win comes down to who has better press Huxley did Wilberforce church certain they had won The origins of war Socialist objections Marx and Engel Vehemently against it even though it looks very good with their idea of capitalism and stuff saying that all Darwin is doing is placing the dominant class perspective on nature Darwin was 100 influenced on by class how does Darwin s status affect his scientific view on everything beneath him Long term impact and reception The search for a mechanism Social Darwinism Darwin wasn t a proponent on this does evolution get applied to man