The marriage of Charles and Emma Darwin was an embodiment of the modern tension between science and religion. Though the Darwins had a famously successful marriage, they also famously disagreed about the existence of God and God’s role in the world. Barely a month after their wedding in 1839, Emma wrote Charles a letter expressing...Read More

In what sense was Charles Darwin a genius? How was it that this simple, modest, and lovable gentleman created such a noise in the world? What had he done but connect observations with other observations in ways others had foreseen but never in such persuasive detail? “It’s dogged as does it,” Charles would say, convincingly...Read More