St. George Jackson Mivart

St. George Jackson Mivart
FRS
Mivart, by Barraud & Jerrard
Born(1827-11-30)30 November 1827
London, England
Died1 April 1900(1900-04-01) (aged 72)
London, England

St. George Jackson Mivart FRS (30 November 1827 – 1 April 1900) was an English biologist. He is famous for starting as an ardent believer in natural selection and later becoming one of its fiercest critics. Mivart attempted to reconcile the theory of evolution as propounded by Charles Darwin with the beliefs of the Catholic Church but was condemned by both Darwin and the Church.[1] His belief in a soul created by God and insistence that evolutionism was not incompatible with the existence of such a God brought him into conflict with other evolutionists, while his theological theories on hell and on the compatibility between science and Catholicism led him to clash with the Church.[2]

  1. ^ Desmond, Adrian (1982). Archetypes and Ancestors: Palaeontology in Victorian London. London, UK: Blond & Briggs. pp. 137–142. ISBN 9780226143446.
  2. ^ Mariano, Artigas (2006). Negotiating Darwin: The Vatican confronts evolution, 1877–1902. Glick, Thomas F.; Martínez, Rafael A. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 236 ss. ISBN 9780801889431. OCLC 213306043.