Irish PhilosophyNov 24, 2022

Mention of Darwin's letters being available online reminds me of the letter sent to #Darwin from #MaryEverestBoole, widow of #GeorgeBoole, asking what were the theological implications of #NaturalSelection.

He replied “ I cannot see how the belief that all organic beings including man have been genetically derived from some simple being, instead of having been separately created bears on your difficulties”.

Darwin seems to have found the whole thing quite odd

https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2018/11/24/science-theology-path/

Science must take her path & Theology hers: Mary Boole’s questions to Darwin

Do you consider the holding of your Theory of Natural Selection, in its fullest & most unreserved sense, to be inconsistent,—I do not say with any particular scheme of Theological doctrine,—but…

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> .. the #Kerala School of #Mathematics anticipated the work of ‘Gregory, #Newton and #Leibniz by at least 250 years’; ..[probably] transmitted to Europe by Jesuits.. non-Western influences usually went unacknowledged.. [but by] nineteenth-century logician and mathematician #GeorgeBoole, they were explicitly recognized. #Boole’s wife, #MaryEverestBoole.. claim[ed] that.. European science ‘could never have reached its.. height had it not been fertilized by.. knowledge stored up in the East’.