In article <m2f%8.16419$Fq6.1804763 at news2.west.cox.net> "John Knight" <johnknight at usa.com> writes:
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<"Cary Kittrell" <cary at afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
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<> In article <jJOZ8.8647$Fq6.665702 at news2.west.cox.net> "John Knight"
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<> <"Cary Kittrell" <cary at afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message
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<> <With regard to your claim that his contemporaries thought they were doing
<> <God a favor, you know we're not going to hold our breaths waiting for
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<> "Summer for the gods: the Scopes trial and America's continuing
<> debate over evolution", Edward J. Larson. You should read it.
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<> -- cary
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<When you say "contemporaries", you're actually talking about a very small
<group of people,
Yeppers, that would be the biologists, those who read, understoood,
and considered his agruments. Those who haven't a clue as to
the actual theory, but who have loud opinions about it nonetheless,
are of no interest to me. Science is not sports.
<as most of the people of his time thought Darwin was a
<dunce
Of course you have reams of support for this freshly-minted factlet.
>> --which of course he was.
You might try reading him. Just a couple of paragraphs. He's to
this day held up as a stylistic model. You might start with Martin
Gardner's "The Sacred Beetle and other great essays in science".
And his first love and a lifelong one, was the biology and ecology
of earthworms. His treatise on that alon would make him remembered to
this day if he had never written the word "evolution".
-- cary
