Spencer and Dust: Dust You Are, but Dust Evolved (Spencer and Dust: Polvo eres, mas polvo evolucionado)

Abstract

English abstract: A vindication of the wide-ranging perspective of Herbert Spencer's theories of cosmic evolutionism, as an intellectual enterprise far more ambitious and comprehensive than that of his contemporary Charles Darwin. (A retropost from 2011).

Spanish abstract: Reivindicamos la amplia perspectiva de las teorías del evolucionismo cósmico de Herbert Spencer, como una empresa intelectual muchísimo más ambiciosa y comprensiva que la de su coetáneo Darwin. (Un retropost de 2011)

Keywords: Evolution, Cosmology, Evolutionism, Philosophy, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, Complexity