Freethought
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Freethought is a social movement espousing unorthodox attitudes and beliefs, formed independently from authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
Bust of Bertrand Russell in London
Tombstone detail of a freethinker, late 19th century (Cemetery of Cullera, Spain)
Pansy is a symbol of freethought.
Hommage aux morts de la Libre-pensée, 1881
Charles Darwin
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Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a co
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…which will also work for pointing out the incompatibility between science and religion, faith, and reason. In this way, there will be a lot of talk on Charles Darwin's theories or on the negation of the existence of the soul". In 1901, the Catalan anarchist and freethinker Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia established…
Darwin, c. 1854
A chalk drawing of the seven-year-old Darwin in 1816, with a potted plant, by Ellen Sharples. Part of a double portrait showing him together with his sister Catherine.
A bicentennial portrait by Anthony Smith of Darwin as a student, in the courtyard at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he had rooms.
Darwin (right) on the Beagle's deck at Bahía Blanca in Argentina, with fossils; caricature by Augustus Earle, the initial ship's artist