Alfred Russel Wallace: The Spiritual Evolutionist

About this episode

This episode explores the life and theories of Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who contributed to the understanding of evolution while incorporating spiritual elements into his views.

The naturalist whose contemporaneous insights into “the transmutation of species” may have shared top billing with Darwin had he not gone off - script, refusing to boot god entirely from his theory of evolution.

People in this episode

Host: Ray Agostinelli

Topics covered

• evolution
• naturalism
• spirituality
• history of science
• Darwinism

Keywords

• Alfred Russel Wallace
• evolution
• Darwin
• naturalist
• spirituality
• transmutation of species

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