charles darwin

Some years ago, I visited Lichfield, which is a beautiful small town in England. Just in front of a very old cathedral I saw a house which turned to be where Erasmus Darwin once lived. Well, he was Charles Darwin's grandfather, a physician, poet, philosopher, botanist, and naturalist. I...

In a post on ADD, I wrote: Psychology is not only susceptible to the newest woo, but also very influenced by some pretty old woo, too (Freud, anyone?) Nails replied. Freud was a pioneer in psychology, and should be judged in the context of the times in which he was working. Much of what...

http://www.boingboing.net/2006/11/15/charles_darwin_appar.html Amazing! Is it a sign? If so, what does it mean?

More at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1925715,00.html

This one is new to me. Belief in evolution leads to Nazism. Uh... or something...

Among other things... This from Human Events on Ann Coulter's new book: Godless. "Ann ups the ante once again. In Godless: The Church of Liberalism, she shows how liberal hostility to traditional religion stems from the fact that liberalism is itself a religion -- a godless one. And, she...

The Darwin exhibit now at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City is being extended through August due to "overwhelming public response". In its first three months the exhibit has attracted 200,000 visitors. At TAM4 one of the speakers mentioned that this exhibit had no major...

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1096932.php/Churches_celebrate_Darwin%60s_birthday Woot!

It's coming - this Sunday, Feb. 12th... http://www.darwinday.org Cheers - Mattus

They had a nice segment on Science Friday yesterday on Darwin, this exhibit, and the ongoing ID controversy. The guy from the museum gave a link to the little manual they wrote up for the docents at the exhibit to respond to possible questions from creationists and ID proponents...

THE Vatican has issued a stout defence of Charles Darwin, voicing strong criticism of Christian fundamentalists who reject his theory of evolution and interpret the biblical account of creation literally. Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, said the Genesis...

Swarthmore students are selling these CHARLES DARWIN HAS A POSSE vinyl stickers that you can sport to show your support for Enlightenment, reason, and the separation of church and state. get yours here: http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/evolk12/posse/chazhasaposse.htm

Some people have said recently things along the lines of "We know that evolution took place, but need it have been Dawinian" --- offering up "Intelligent Design", as an alternative. One interesting point to note is that this line of reasoning would make the story of evolution absolutely...

Don't know how many others caught this, but the Sunday "BC" comic was this one , which takes a very anti-Darwin/anti-Evolution view. Reason I put it here instead of another section of the Forum is that the comic's writer, Johnny Hart, has never made a secret of his Christian leanings and has...

Found this on the Internet: Darwin's Letter to his friend, Sir Thomas Thompton, 1861: 'I believe in the theory of evolution, not because I have proof, but because it helps me in classification, Morphology, Embryology, and rudimentary organs..." Question 1: Is it true ? Did Darwin say that in...

The 2005 Darwin Day event is designed for students! will be held on Monday 14 February 9:30am - 12:30pm University of Technology lecture theatre "406" (Broadway entrance level of Tower Building.) Entry adults $10, pensioners and students $5. http://www.users.on.net/~skeptic/darwin/

I read a book review about a book on scientific frauds (I forgot the name and I have recycled the newspaper). It mentioned that several famous scientists appeared to have cooked their data including Pasteur, Mendel and Darwin. I had heard that Pasteur and Mendel had some very iffy data but I...

NO! National Geographic has just put out a new issue with the cover story stating singularly that anybody who ignores the massive amount of evidence supporting evolution is a bleeding fool. check it out http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/001020.html...

It must be true! The Weekly World News says so! Humans evolved from pigs!

Celebrate by using your opposable thumb to open a bottle of beer.

Quoted from: http://www.dar.cam.ac.uk/lectures/2004/ Nineteenth Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 2004 EVIDENCE Fridays at 5.30 p.m. The Lady Mitchell Hall Sidgwick Avenue Cambridge 16 Jan Carlo Ginzburg - Representing the Enemy: Historical Evidence and its Ambiguities 23 Jan Karen...

I just found this quote on a woo-woo site: and to check they hadn't just made it up, i found a searchable on line version of the book at: link I know the time in which he lived was a lot different to know, but i still don't what this to be true. He's one of my greatest hero's and always...