James Moore (biographer)

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name = James Moore


caption = James Moore in a church

James Moore, historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin. He was born March 13th 1947 and brought up in a fundamentalist family in Chicago with the idea that Charles Darwin was an enemy of God. As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with Adrian Desmond the major biography "Darwin", and also writing "The Darwin Legend," "The Post Darwin Controversies," and many articles and reviews.

Moore worked on the documentary series "The Mark Steel Lectures", but due to conflicts ended up having his name taken off the program. [Paramount Comedy Podcast: Robin Ince's Utter Shambles, Episode 3]

References

* Adrian Desmond and James Moore, "Darwin", London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013192-2
* "The Darwin Legend", Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64243-2

External links

* [http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/index.shtml SOF: Evolution and Wonder - Understanding Charles Darwin (Speaking of Faith from American Public Media)] Links to mp3 and transcript, as well as links to supporting material, including radio interview with James Moore who contends that "Darwin's understanding of nature never departed from a theological point of view. Always, I believe, until his dying day, at least half of him believed in God".
* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/03/AR2006020300822_pf.html Eden and Evolution] , interview with James Moore and others.
* [http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/darwin/moore-devilschaplain.pdf Darwin – A `Devil’s Chaplain’?] (pdf)