This chapter examines changing ideas of religion, kinship, and science among a historical community of pigeon fanciers in London who contributed to Charles Darwin’s research on reproduction. These Dissenters mobilized antisectarian religious ideals to serve universalizing scientific inquiries some hoped might elucidate the plan of Creation. Drawing on moral convictions about truth and trust common to their evaluations of birds and breeders, they formed close friendships counted as kinship in England and preserved in the language of the King James Bible. Feeley-Harnik considers why Darwin chose a bird exemplifying spirituality to make scientific arguments about the kinship of all creatures.
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