Hervé Le Guyader's 'Penser l'évolution' Examines Evolution and Creationism

Hervé Le Guyader's book 'Penser l'évolution', published by Imprimerie nationale, offers a serene and accessible synthesis on the origins of life and the logic of the living. The work traces the history of evolutionary thought from early classification attempts that revealed species extinction, through Cuvier's concept of 'revolution on the globe's surface', to the rise of creationism adapting to new data with multi-creationism. Le Guyader highlights the irony that Darwin praised William Paley, inventor of intelligent design, in his autobiography. The book addresses the ongoing hostility toward evolution a century and a half after its emergence, contrasting with the resolved heliocentrism debate. It reminds readers that the separation between faith and knowledge remains delicate two centuries after Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.