Charles Clement Coe

Charles Clement Coe (8 February 1830 – 1 April 1921) was an English Unitarian minister and writer who advocated non-Darwinian evolution.

Coe was born in King's Lynn and was educated at Manchester College, Oxford. He was President of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society (1862-1863) and was Minister of the Unitarian Great Meeting chapel in Bond Street, Leicester.

It was while at Bolton that Coe wrote a large volume, Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution (1895). He defended evolution but rejected natural selection. The biologist J. Arthur Thomson gave the book a positive review, commenting that it is a very interesting critique of natural selection written with much skill. It was also positively reviewed in The Lancet journal.

Publications Outlines of a Christian Faith (1862) The Law of Parsimony and the Argument of Design (1882) General Gordon in a New Light: The Cause of War, and the Advocate of Peace (1885) Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism (1889) Nature Versus Natural Selection: An Essay on Organic Evolution (1895)