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📢  文末扫码进裙，免费领取双语精读版 The Oxford debate where evolution triumphed over creationism  A turning-point in the history of science. The Economist Monster vehicles 5 Sep, 2024 | 884 words | ★★ ★ ★ ☆   It usually takes a rather long time for a worldview to become outmoded and replaced by a new one. But in the eyes of many scientists, a monumental shift took place on one day: June 30th 1860. It was then, at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, that Thomas Huxley, an English biologist and representative of the new theory of evolution, bested in debate Samuel Wilberforce, the city’s bishop and (unsurprisingly) a biblical creationist. In retrospect, the mythmakers are right, for in the spin game that followed the debate the evolutionists came out on top, the bishop’s reputation was badly tarnished and Huxley acquired the sobriquet “Darwin’s bulldog”. But as to what actually happened that day, no minutes were taken and recollect ………………………………