Friday, May 04, 2007

FreeThoughtAction Hero Of The Day - 5/4/07

Thomas Henry Huxley (May 4 1825 - June 29 1895)

According to Wikipedia, Huxley was an English biologist, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

Thomas Huxley's most famous debate was against the Lord Bishop of Oxford Samuel Wilberforce; afterwards, Huxley called himself an "episcopophagist" (a bishop-eater).... He defended evolution, and advocated scientific education and an agnostic or materialist professional science.

A talented populariser of science, he coined the term "agnosticism" to describe his stance on religious belief.