Word: darwins
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Radically modern new modes of thought flowered as well. Charles Darwin was quietly and carefully constructing the theory of evolution that he would introduce to the dumbstruck world a decade later. In American politics, abolitionism was just beginning to move from the left wing into the mainstream. Feminism officially launched in August 1848 in upstate New York, at a convention of reformers who issued a shockingly stark declaration of women's rights, demanding suffrage...
...graduate of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who stopped by the Museum of Fine Arts last Saturday to screen his first full-length documentary feature, “Flock of Dodos,” as part of a nation-wide, week-long screening tour in honor of Darwin Day. Olson is the kind of guy who banters about embryology over a hand of poker, and includes his mother, Muffy Moose, in a documentary about evolution versus intelligent design.Olson’s documentary is a hybrid of these two ways of life: armed with the science of evolution...
...effort to elbow one's way into the baby photos. Look, sweetie! Here's me putting you into your Sex Pistols onesie! Here's me making your first mix CD! Once, it was understood that raising kids was about subordinating yourself, recognizing that, as least as far as Darwin and the gene pool were concerned, you were no longer the star. This is not to say the hipster writers are bad parents--or writers; their work can be wise and moving. But the generation that as children was told by TV that "the most important person in the whole wide...
...Argument Bravo for your insightful "God Vs. Science" debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins [Jan. 15]. The discussion is not only important to Christians but to humans of other faiths as well. How can you compare God with science, which is merely a way of analyzing material things? Darwin's theory of evolution doesn't contradict the existence of a Supreme Being, since time and space have no relevance to God-our billion years could be a single moment to him. I disagree with Dawkins' assertion that science doesn't deal with metaphysics. Science is not in competition with...
...visualize seven-dimensional space and perhaps can't intuitively grasp why neural information processing observed from the outside should give rise to subjective experience on the inside. This is where I place my bet, though I admit that the theory could be demolished when an unborn genius--a Darwin or Einstein of consciousness--comes up with a flabbergasting new idea that suddenly makes it all clear...