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The Death of Adam, “Darwinism”

The first essay in the book is a polemic against what Robinson terms “Darwinism,” or, in common parlance, “survival of the fittest.”1 This doesn’t refer to evolution, but to an “interpretation of this phenomenon which claims to refute religion and … Continue reading

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The Death of Adam

I’ve seen Marilynne Robinson’s novels in bookstores before, but the covers never stood out to me (unfair? yes.) But I came across an excerpt from one of her essays — having no idea she wrote such things — and was … Continue reading

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