Word: darwins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campus of the University of Chicago, Dr. Mortimer J. (the Great Books) Adler is known as "the activity that supplanted football." Last week "the Great Bookie" lived up to his reputation. Squaring off in the "Defense of Man Against Darwin," Adler delivered one of his favorite lectures and promptly started an intellectual battle royal...
...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...
Having rejected Darwin's hypothesis, Dr. Adler proposed two alternatives: 1) a theory of "emergent evolution," in which a higher species "evolves" from a lower with no intermediate forms; 2) the possibility of man's special creation by God in His Own Image...
Frankly delighted with all the ruckus, Adler hopefully suggests that the violence of the reaction is just a repetition of the shock and bewilderment which Darwin himself caused a hundred years ago. Says Adler: "The reversal suggests that in our universities today scientific hypotheses have the status of religious dogmas...
Britain's most significant contribution to civilization, more important even than plum pudding, plaid dinner jackets and Winston Churchill, is the principle of the survival of the fittest. Adam Smith applied it to economics, Charles Darwin to biology and Cecil Rhodes to Empire. In these illustrious footsteps follows Stephen Potter, who threatens to apply it to everything...