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...Oreopithecus was a contemporary 10,000,000 years ago of proconsul and dryopithecus, these two apes could not have been ancestors of man, as they have often been considered. Although Hurzeler's thesis proves that man had a long history separate from the apes, Howells denied that it refutes Darwinian evolution...
...foxes. From Down House, his retreat in Kent, he issued a stream of letters to his disciples and champions, urging them on, tactfully setting them straight, occasionally punctuating his orders with childlike cries of "Oh my gracious!" Far away, in sooty London, in learned Berlin, in skeptical Paris, lesser Darwinian deities wielded his thunderbolts: bearded Titans of science grappled amid earth-shaking roars with massive doctors of divinity. Darwin was dumfounded by the racket. "I feel quite infantile in intellect," he said...
...archfiend, "borne by Huxley, Hooker, Wallace, Lubbock, James Russell Lowell, Canon Ferrar, an Earl, two Dukes, and the President of the Royal Society," was carried in amid the angelic chanting of choirboys. Fortunately, there was a living Darwin present, his son William, to give the ceremony a characteristically Darwinian touch. The abbey was very drafty, so William, "with the respect shown by all Darwins for the possible invasion of disease . . . poised his black gloves on the top of his bald head and sat thus throughout the service...
...Mortimer Adler's at it again, trying to down [Darwinian] evolution, to make it possible for us once again to accept the idea that man is created in God's Own Image [TIME, June...
Sponsored by the University's Roman Catholic Calvert Club, Adler faced a capacity crowd that jammed into Kent Hall, piled up in the aisles and overflowed into every available space. Then, for the next hour, he ripped into great chunks of Darwinian theory. Though he conceded that the Origin of Species (one of the Great Books) might properly describe the evolution of plants and animals, he flatly challenged Darwin's later hypothesis relating men to apes...