Aubrey Moore

Aubrey Lackington Moore (1848 – 1890) was one of the first Christian Darwinians. He has been described as "the clergyman who more than any other man was responsible for breaking down the antagonisms towards Evolution then widely felt in the English Church".Fact|date=February 2007

Moore argued that Darwinism was not in conflict with Christianity. He differed from other religious figures at the time by accepting the theory of natural selection, incorporating it into his Christian beliefs as merely the way God worked.

He was curator of the Botanical Gardens in England in 1887.

He wrote two books: "Science and Faith" (1889) and "Essays Scientific and Philosophical" (1890). [Moore, James (1910) "The Post Darwinian Controversies 1870 -1900", Cambridge University Press.]

References

NOTE: This book is by historian James Moore, NOT Aubrey Moore.

For a fine if brief review of Aubrey Moore's impact and times, see Natural Selection, Teleology, and the Logos, by Richard England, in Osiris, vol. 16 pp 270-287 (2001).