Talk:St. George Jackson Mivart

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Although George Jackson Mivart is listed as "St. George Jackson Mivart" in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, the "St." gives the implication that he was canonized a saint by the Catholic Church. Currently I am removing the "St." from his name until a better way of mentioning his extended name is found.

Response: The point is not that Mivart was canonized (which of course he was not). The point is that his parents named him after St. George. They get to decide what his name is, not you.

JBogdan 19:56, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] contradiction

The article says in paragraph 1, sentence 5 that his book Genesis of Species was written "in an attempt to disprove Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection" In paragraph 1, sentence 10, it says "Though admitting evolution generally, Mivart denied its applicability to the human intellect." DGG 18:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Here's the issue: Mivart accepted the fact of evolution, as did most naturalists in the decades after Darwin's 1859 "On the Origin of Species." What he doubted was that natural selection was the primary mechanism by which evolution takes place. A good discussion of these issues appears in Bowlers' "Evolution: The History of an Idea" and Young's "The Discovery of Evolution." So compelling were Mivart's arguments that Darwin spent a dozen or so pages addressing some of them in the sixth edition of "Origin."

129.15.127.254 (talk) 18:49, 5 May 2008 (UTC)Daniel Dickson-LaPrade