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1841–1918
Best known for a forceful early-20th-century religious critique of evolution, this little-known writer left behind a work that captures a vivid slice of its era's science-and-faith debates. His surviving record is sparse, which only adds to the curiosity around his book and the world it came from.
by Noble Smithson
Published as Noble Smithson, he is associated with Smithson's Theory of Special Creation, a book from the early 1900s that argues against evolutionary theory and defends the idea that each human being was specially created. The work places him within the long-running conversation between religion and science that shaped much public debate in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Reliable biographical details about his personal life are hard to confirm from the sources I found. Based on the dates provided here, he lived from 1841 to 1918, but beyond that, the available public record appears quite limited.
That makes him one of those authors remembered mainly through a single surviving title rather than a well-documented career. For listeners interested in historical religious thought, his work offers a window into how some writers of his time responded to modern scientific ideas.