Darwin was able to put his finger on why it took so long for humanity to come to this correct theory: It was extremely counter-intuitive to how one would naturally see the world. He admitted as much in the Origin of Species‘ concluding chapter: 达尔文能够确切的指出为什么人类需要这么长时间...
Richard Dawkins, the hero of atheists, and author of The God Delusion, readily admitted in his 2004 PBS interview that evolution hasn’t been observed and all the evidence supporting evolution is circumstantial evidence. Dawkins emphasizes that there is Huge quantities of circumstantial evidence. Be...
Darwin could not say what caused the variations, which sometimes led to the development of new species; he was inclined at times to call it the work of chance, but he admitted that chance is just a name for something we don’t understand. There is a profound connection, then, between na...
Furthermore, Grateful Dead song writer John Perry Barlow, in 2002, admitted in a Forbes magazine interview ironically titled “Why Spy?” that he spent time at CIA headquarters at Langley.[17] MK-ULTRA ran a number of its operations near Haight-Ashbury, the San Francisco district where LSD ...
Darwin trying (ultimately successfully) to get Edwin Ray Lankester admitted into the Linnean Society after his unfair blackballing for in-house political reasons. Darwin suggesting George John Romanes try grafting live pigeon skins. Bartholomew James Sulivan sending the latest news of former HMS Beagle...
There was great joy in the atheist world during 2010, where they celebrated the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin! Sigh...that left Jehovah's Witnesses doubly out in the cold: we don't worship Darwin and we don't do birthdays. Nonetheless, it's a...
It was very stupid of me. In my sketch I am forced to pick out the most striking cases of species which favour the multiple creation doctrine, without indeed great continental extensions are admitted. Of the many wonderful cases in your books, the one which strikes me most is that list ...
ATTP should be congratulated on his matter-of-fact publishing of Thorne’s criticism–activists have long complained that if they admitted to any chink in the edifice of climate ‘dogma’ (too strong a word, but I can’t think of another), their opponents would rush into demanding more and...
PooryoungDarwinhadnoparticularfocusinhislifeatthistime,sohisfatherdecidedhewouldfollowinthelonglineofdoctorsinthefamilyandstudymedicine.DarwinwastobeadmittedintoEdinburghUniversity,inScotland-knownashavingoneofEurope'smostdistinguishedmedicalschools.DuringthesummerDarwinactedasassistantinhisfather'smedicalpractice,treating...
Behe's household example of Irreducible Complexity was the mousetrap. Behe's biological examples of an IC system were cilia, flagellum and the blood clotting system. He borrowed the cilia from Michael Denton (1986) (19). Michael Denton came close to inventing Irreducible Complexity. Denton claimed...