English biologist known as 'Darwin's Bulldog' who became the most vigorous public advocate for evolutionary theory and coined the term 'agnosticism' — modeling the displacement of religion by scientific naturalism.
Successfully championed Darwinian evolution in Victorian public culture — winning the famous Oxford debate against Bishop Wilberforce — and coined 'agnosticism' as the proper epistemological stance for a scientist who accepts only empirically verifiable claims.
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