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English biologist and essayist, Thomas Huxley. A leading advocate of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, Huxley combined his philosophical ideas with scientific exposition. He wrote essays from an ‘agnostic’ viewpoint (a term he introduced) and held that scientific discoveries had neither given support to, nor discredited, religious faith.

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From Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture
Within a short time of its 1859 publication, Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection evoked a wide variety of reactions. Many of his readers enthusiastically embraced natural selection as the elusive mechanism that explained the process of evolution, while others recoiled from Darwinian naturalism, which seemed to obviate divine involvement and purpose. Responses came from all quarters scientists, philosophers, theologiansand the concept of evolution soon made its way into almost every academic discipline. Because of his temperament and bad health, Darwin shunned the limelight, especially public confrontation. Thomas Henry Huxley, one of Darwin's closest friends and confidants, entered the debate about evolution with a more combative spirit and quickly earned the nickname “Darwin's Bulldog.” No epithet was given more deservedly. Though he did not agree with every aspect of Darwinism, Huxley advanced the arguments that related to evolutionits tempo and…
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Full text Article Huxley's layer

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a layer of the inner stratum of a hair follicle composed of one or two layers of horny flattened epithelial cells with nuclei and situated between Henle's layer and the cuticle next to the hair Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–1895), British biologist. Huxley is best remembered as an early proponent and…
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Full text Article Huxley, Thomas Henry

From Encyclopedia of Evolution
(b. 1825–d. 1895) Evolutionary scientist Thomas Henry Huxley was one of the first and most passionate defenders of Darwinian evolution, both in the scientific community and with the general public. Huxley thus earned the enduring description as “Darwin's bulldog.” However, Huxley did not hesitate to…
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Full text Article Thomas Henry Huxley 1825–95

From The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
English biologist and surgeon, a leading supporter of Darwinism; grandfather of Aldous huxley and Julian huxley I, the man without a rag of a label to cover himself with…took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of ‘agnostic’. Collected Essays (1893–4) ‘Agnosticism’ The…
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Full text Article agnosticism

From Encyclopedia of Ethics
The term ‘agnosticism’ was coined by the English biologist Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) around 1869, but the position itself is far moreancient: there have doubtless been agnostics ever since people first began to think seriously about the gods. The agnostic is a sort of partial or limited…
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