Post-Darwin, James Clerk Maxwell's Views Presaged Modern Arguments for Intelligent Design

Yesterday, we considered the pre-Darwin views of the towering physicist, who lived from 1831 to 1879, thus straddling Charles Darwin's own period of scientific activity and publishing. The Origin of Species appeared in 1859. In 1860, Maxwell returned to London for a professorship at King's College, where he met Faraday. For the next decade, he devoted himself to his great work on undergirding Faraday's empirical work with solid mathematical physics, climaxing in his 1873 Treatise on Electric...