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Do you know anyone who has a lake named after them? Lake Victoria is our planet's second largest
freshwater lake and is bordered by Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. [1] England's Queen Alexandrina Victoria (d.
1901) was fifth in line for the throne and then her father, granddad and uncles
died before she was eighteen. She married German Prince Albert in 1840
("do you have Prince Albert in a can?" ☺). She bore nine kids! Victoria was a great fan of Benjamin Disraeli
who was Prime Minister twice. In a
speech at Oxford in 1864, Disraeli said, "The question is this, is man an
ape or an angel? My lord, I am on the
side of the angels. I repudiate with
indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which is, I believe, contrary to
the conscience of mankind." It is
thought that Queen Victoria gave a Bible to Ali bin Nasr, governor of Mombasa.
To the ruler of Abeokuta (Nigeria), Victoria gave Bibles in English and Arabic. The Queen famously stated, "That book
[the Bible] accounts for the supremacy of England."
The Victoria Institute (aka the Philosophical Society of
Great Britain) was founded in 1865. The
first volume of the Journal of the
Transactions of the Victoria Institute (1867-1868) had a foundational paper
titled "Scientia Scientiarum." In it we learn that in 1844, when the British
Association for the Advancement of Science met at York, the late Dean of York, Sir
William Cockburn, a geologist, said:
You say that there are
geological facts which prove the long existence of the world through many ages.
I say there are no such facts. Here we are completely and plainly at issue.
Produce, then, some one or more of these facts; and if I cannot fairly account
for them without supposing the very long duration of the earth, I am beaten! I
am silenced! But if you do not produce such facts, and retreat, like Professor [Adam]
Sedgwick [d. 1873], from the challenge, confess, or let your silence confess,
that the whole doctrine of a pre-Adamite world has been a mistake...
James Reddie, the Honorary Secretary of the Victoria
Institute, had this to say:
My object not being to
refute the geological views of Sir Charles Lyell or Bishop Colenso [The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua
Critically Examined] ... It is no part of my object to endeavor to prove
that there are now no scientific views opposed to the Scriptures. Were that the
case, had every quasi-fact and every "scientific" theory already
shared the fate of the azoic ages and the "original igneous fluidity of
the earth's nucleus," why then, of course, the Victoria Institute had been
founded late in the day! ... I for one would never have thought of its
establishment. But at the same time, I may be permitted to observe, that surely
these confident appeals made by Bishop Colenso and Dr. Temple to "simple
facts revealed by modern science" that contradict the statements of Holy
Scripture, are put forward with an unwise effrontery so soon after such large
confessions by our most eminent geologist (from whom they take their science
second-hand), of science contradicting itself, and of the utterly delusive
character of its former ''revelations" respecting the very foundation
"facts" of geology. Surely when the scientific have been all out as
regards the Creation of the world, after all the bold sneers in "Essays
and Reviews" [on biblical criticism, multiple authors] as to the blunders
of "the Hebrew Descartes" - a little modesty and somewhat less
confidence might well become our once "deluded" teachers, when they
come to speak now of the Deluge. There
are, doubtless, men of science and authors, who have already been engaged in
investigating this question of the evidence of the universality of the deluge
from a scientific point of view; and who have arrived at other conclusions than
those of Sir Charles Lyell.
You may read all the articles from the Victoria Institute
here (their journal is now called Faith
& Thought). JI Packer is in the
house‼ Are there famous scientists that
were influenced by this group? The
cactus moth loves to eat cacti. In the
early 20th Century, the prickly pear was an invasive plant in Australia and a
huge nuisance ("crikey" ‼).
John Mann (d. 1994) found the solution to the prickly
pear problem and won international kudos in the 1930's. With widespread distribution of the Cactus
Moth (Cactoblastis cactorum), the
infestation was controlled. Mann, who
was a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), had a definite opinion
on Darwin since he was a young man:
The concept of evolution at
that time (1930's) was not as universal as it is now. There
were lots of debates about it, a lot of questions asked and being answered. In the 1920s I used to get copies of the
magazine put out by the Victoria Institute in England. They were men of high degree and they wrote
against evolution. Their magazine
influenced me greatly.
Mann was a Bible-believing Christian and creationist.
Creationists are innovators! Speaking of creationaries, my friend Casey
Williams has a new book out, The Codes of
Self Innovation. There are
Creationists who have done positive deeds for the entire globe. Dr. Tyndale John Rendle-Short (d. 2010) was a
Member of the Order of Australia for his research on infantile autism. He was an innovator in early childhood autism
diagnosis and was highly regarded around the world.
In the Doctor Who (David Tennant) episode "Tooth and
Claw," the Doctor meets Queen Victoria.
He also wears a new moniker, Sir James McCrimmon from Balamory. In the drama, the Torchwood Institute was a secret
UFO/paranormal research organization established in 1879 by Queen Victoria
after the werewolf problem was resolved.
Meanwhile, back in the actual
world, the very real Victoria Institute was never mentioned in the show (if
memory serves).
Speaking of science fiction, Martin Fichman wrote Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture which was published by
Humanity Books (2002). He is Professor
Emeritus at York University (Toronto).
He received his doctorate in
History of Science from Harvard in 1969. According to Fichman ...
Since the Victorian era,
evolutionism has become an integral part of the debates regarding the
appropriate place of science in the broader culture. The relationship between
evolutionary science and religion is a critical aspect of these wide-ranging
debates. ... Fundamentalist factions, such as creationists, some sects of
Orthodox Jews, and increasing numbers of Islamic sects, in contrast, regard
evolution as anathema. ... These issues involve not only differing concepts of
knowledge and belief but competing views of cultural authority. ... Huxley, Darwin, Spencer, and their associates
had to wage an uphill battle to influence individual and institutional
attitudes in government, education, industry, and society. At the start of the
twenty-first century, a similar effort is being mounted by the
antievolutionists. Although their crusade and that is the operative metaphor
will undoubtedly fail, their tactics and their influence over certain
individuals and institutions are unfortunate. [2]
Meanwhile, back at the Ranch (Reality), creationism is on
the rise. I hope and pray that Dr.
Fichman gets red-pilled soon. We hope to
hear your feedback, pro or con (that includes you Dr. Fichman):
DeepTimeSkeptic@protonmail.com
BTW, David B. Kitts was my History of Science Prof ... he
wrote the foundational work on the Philosophy of Geology, The Structure of Geology. Speaking
of Humanity (Fichman's publisher) ...
Notes:
1) The University
Desk Encyclopedia (Elsevier, Lausanne, 1977), p. 1011.
2) Evolutionary
Theory and Victorian Culture by Martin Fichman (Humanity Books, Amherst,
NY, 2002), p. 222.
my site: https://totalyouth.us/
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