Word: darwinism
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...previously seemed godly mysteries. Others saw no need for such reverential lip service. When he was asked by Napoleon why there was no mention of God in his new book about the stars, the French astronomer Laplace coolly answered: "I had no need of the hypothesis." Neither did Charles Darwin, in uncovering the evidence of evolution...
...Quick One with Darwin. Tahiti existed m the imagination of Europe before the Europeans sighted its shores Ever since the decline of the notion of original sin, philosophers of the Enlightenment had tried to account for man's lamentable condition. The state of nature remained an abstraction until Tahiti was discovered; it seemed to be just what the doctors of philosophy had ordered. Here was proof that the Noble Savage did exist...
...there's a pretty picture! Two men pounding each other in their Bakelite-encased genitalia, while a third stands by yelling "Kill!" And this edifying activity presided over by a fourth who has the effrontery to keep the Bible in his office. Darwin must have been wrong. Man is not an improved strain of ape; when the Harold Johnsons of this world auspiciously fade away, man might perhaps rise to the level...
...chapel glows a brilliant, stained-glass window reflecting the Royal Air Force's stand during the Battle of Britain. But to the enduring honor of England, more than military pomp and glory is recognized. The Abbey is also a national grave for the composer Purcell, the scientists Newton, Darwin and Kelvin. In Poets' Corner lie a score more than Keats, Tennyson and Browning. There is even a modern Epstein bust of Blake...
...compared woman's position today with that of Darwin, who gave up possible careers in medicine and in the ministry for years of introspection into the forming of species. "Women won't perish if they don't publish," she pointed out. "They just won't get a professorship...