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...Charles Darwin started wrestling with questions like this when he published his 1871 book The Descent of Man. Darwin granted that his readers might doubt that humans evolved from an ancestral ape. "Man differs so greatly in his mental power from all other animals, there must be some error in this conclusion," he wrote. But he argued that the difference between us and other animals was of degree, not of kind. That applied not just to our teeth and toes but also to our morals and minds. And even, he declared, to love...
...opposed to the "inter-civilization" fallout from the 2006 Regensberg address, the battle lines being drawn around La Sapienza were part of an ongoing internal struggle within the West. The public skirmishes occur on the now familiar terrain of bioethics, abortion, Darwin and separation of church and state. But being a lifelong man of study and reflection, Benedict also sees the source for much of the conflict in how ideas germinate and spread on university campuses. Biographers say his experience as a professor during the student upheavals of the late 1960s - where he believed a godless pursuit of personal freedom...
...Their relationship wilted under the strains of the arrangement. At one point, Anne Darwin said, her husband travelled to Kansas to pursue a woman he met on the Internet. She resented him for forcing her to conceal the secret from her sons, Mark, 31, and Anthony, 29, and tried to talk him out of returning to England. But "he had had enough of being dead," she said, adding that "John desperately wanted contact with the boys again and thought he could pick up the pieces of his life." Mark and Anthony Darwin issued a statement this week saying they felt...
...Darwin disappeared on March 21, 2002, after paddling his red kayak into the North Sea. His wife reported him missing that night, and despite a frantic rescue effort - which combed 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km) of sea and included nearly a dozen boats and a Royal Air Force helicopter - the search party found no trace of the former prison officer. The splintered remains of his vessel washed ashore six weeks later...
...From the beginning, the disappearance aroused suspicion. Members of the rescue effort could not fathom an experienced kayaker drowning on a day when the sea was unusually placid, and the location where Darwin's vessel washed ashore defied tidal patterns. "It didn't add up," David Young, a ward council member in Seaton Carew, told TIME, adding that fishermen joked the search team would have better luck canvassing the sun-drenched resorts dotting Spain's Costa del Sol. The investigation was rekindled three months ago, when police were tipped off to suspicious financial activity. This week, Tony Hutchinson, a spokesman...