Word: darwin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Surely those who characterize Skinner's thesis as "philosophically distasteful and morally wrong" would have said the same about the theories of Galileo or Darwin. Just because an idea is revolutionary does not make it false. This is particularly true in science...
...Francis A. Johnson, a bachelor and retired carpenter from Darwin, Minn., appeared on television's I've Got a Secret and stumped the panel -with good reason. Johnson's secret: a 2,490-lb. ball of twine, the result of eight years' scrounging around his neighborhood. Today the ball weighs close to five tons, is 11 ft. high and is so unwieldy that a railroad jack must be used to wind on new string. Its bulk attests to Johnson's private war on discarded string...
...astounded to read that the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species was a "great" event in science. Evolution is neither a science nor a history, but rather an antiChristian, anti-theistic way of thought. It is nothing more than a theory. TIME would lead the reader to assume it is a proven fact...
...sophisticated a creature acquire such an unwarranted reputation? For one thing, the first Neanderthal bones were dug just about the time that Darwin astonished the world with his announcement that man and ape were descended from a common ancestor. Neanderthal's apish image was further enforced by the writings early in this century of the respected French paleontologist Pierre Marcellin Boule. His portrait of Neanderthal as a stunted, beetle-browed creature who walked with bent knees and arms dangling in front of him served as the model for several generations of artists and cartoonists. While certain coarse features...
That temptation?to be "like God"?is at the root of the ethical dilemmas posed by molecular biology. In one sense, the new findings have continued the work of Newton, Darwin and Freud, reducing men to even tinier cogs in a mechanistic universe. At the same time, it was man himself who deciphered the code of life and who can now, in Teilhard de Chardin's phrase, "seize the tiller of the world." If he is only a bundle of DNA-directed cells, more sophisticated but hardly dissimilar from those of animals and plants, he can at least...