Darwin’s Bulldog

Darwin’s Bulldog
nickname of Professor Thomas Henry, Huxley, president of the Royal Society, whose defense of Darwin’s Origin of the Species pulverized the arguments of the Bishop of Oxford, Samuel (Soapy Sam) Wilberforce, who had set out to demolish Darwin’s theory of evolution

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