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signed into law, sealed and delivered…
Appearance at the expense of reality, as a gesture to obscure and deny reality? Rather in the context of post-modernism, the society of the spectacle, where we give up on external as well as internal reality, treating the two of … Continue reading
the mono men: back to me, myself and sigh
The Hawkins, Hitchens legacy… The atheist, too, would not dare deny himself a god and why not get personally involved in the god business; they have a god and it is themselves. You could say that the pagan, the idolator … Continue reading
darwin: hooker, line, and sink or swim
…Darwin’s own account suggests that in part he owed the inspiration for his theory to reading T.R. Malthus’s Essay on Population which was written in 1798, though the dates in Darwin’s journal throw some doubt on this. Malthus’s essay purports … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Herbert Spencer, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Richard Dawkins, Richard Milner Darwin, T.R. Malthus
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darwin: pinning the tail on the honkey
…It was the unscientific character of early evolutionary theory that made scientists like Lyell and Huxley, and Darwin himself, skeptical. All the same, their predecessors made some telling points. There were the improvements made in some domesticated animals and plant … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Russell Wallace, Charles Darwin, Deborah Heiligman, Erasmus Darwin, Eugenie Scott National Center for Science Education, joan crawford, Richard Dawkins, Richard Milner Darwin, Stephen Meyer Discovery institute, Thomas Huxley, William Dembski
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young darwin: denial of the fittest
…Darwin himself was a lover of nature, a collector and sportsman, before he was a man of science. He grew up with the tastes of an English provincial gentleman at a time whn hunting, shooting, and the breeding of horses … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, J. B. Lamarck, J.S. Henslow, Madame Pickwick, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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darwin: insufferable biding of time
…The voyage of the Beagle was, as he said himself, the formative experience of Darwin’s life. He lived hard, working in the cramped conditions of a sailing ship, rounding Cape Horn and making expeditions hundreds of miles inland through dangerous … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Bertrand Russell, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun paintings, Charles Lyell, George Stubbs paintings, J. B. Lamarck, Jeremy Bentham, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Professor Peter Singer, Richard Dawkins, T.H. Huxley
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benevolent nature: and then came darwin
…The world was not only imaginatively comprehensible, it was benevolently ordered. It is true that, ever since Copernicus and Galileo, the earth could no longer be regarded as the center of the universe; the music of the spheres was stilled. … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Lyell, David Klinghoffer, david teniers the younger, Frans Snyders, H.P. Blavatsky, J. B. Lamarck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michelangelo, Peter Singer Darwinian Left, Richard Dawkins, Wesley Smith author
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darwin: missing links on those facts
…Huxley made the famous retort, in response to Bishop Wilberforce’s gibe, that he would prefer to have an ape for a grandfather than a man “possessed of great means and influence” who used his influence to bring an important scientific … Continue reading
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Tagged alan bullock, Bishop Wilberforce, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Christopher Hitchens, David Klinghoffer, Frantisek Kupka, Hannah Arendt, Hugh Miller geologist, Leslie Stephen, Richard Dawkins, Sir Richard Owen, Sofonisba painter, T.H. Huxley
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brand awareness of all types: angry bird
Designer rebel. Rebel sell.To somehow integrate and embed social capital and status within the revolution. Give it a hipster edge with street credibility. Go Adbusters on Syria. The sectarianism and the variety of ideologies and objectives lend themselves well to … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Abu Hayder, Bashar Al Assad, Days of Glory Movie, Iliah Saman, Indigenes movie The Weinstein Company, Jacques Beres Medecins Sans Frontieres, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maryanne Zehil, Mohammed Merah, Nabil Feysal, Richard Dawkins, Sedat Akpinar, Yasser Arafat Foundation, Yassir Arafat autopsy
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