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Darwin: cchh..chch…changes
…Of course, Darwin’s theory was not immediately accepted by all scientists, either; in England its opponents were lead by Sir Richard Owen, superintendent of the natural history department of the British Museum, while in America the chief protagonists for and … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin Origin of the Species, David Bowie, Emma Wedgewood, Henri Rousseau, Louis Agassiz, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir Richard Owen, Thomas Huxley
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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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tease the monkey: arrows of outrageous fortune
It began with Noam Chomsky’s assertion that language and the understanding of signs is, within the context as we know it, purely a realm of human endeavor. That would seem fairly axiomatic and difficult to challenge. We like to humanize … Continue reading
UNORDAINED PASSION:AN AVANT GARDE DIVINE MERCY
If you judged these things solely by press headlines, you would assume that the pope was about to face a lynch mob of jeering Protestants and vengeful atheists. Most Britons, we are told, are disgusted at the thought of spending … Continue reading
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PENETRATING THE ILLUSIONS OF SELF: SHIVERING WITH SHAME
“In a 1937 broadcast entitled,” Craftsmanship,” Virginia Woolf seems to predict the ways that contemporary political movements and subsequent social changes have impacted on readers’ ability to discern meanings in her fiction inaccessible to previous generations. She writes that “words that are unintelligible … Continue reading
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