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Although Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel were contemporaries, they never met. By the 1860s. Darwin had already published The Origin of Species, assuring himself a slice of eternity and a reputation as one of history's most influential scientific thinkers. But, Mendel remained an obscure Austrian cleric, an inconsequential geneticist whose genius was not recognized until 20 years after, his death. Darwin was certainly unfamiliar with the monk's work, and Mendel has left no word of what he thought of Darwin's evolutionary theory, a theory that tried to explain the diversity and similarities among organisms, both past...
Ernst Mayr, Alexander Agassiz professor of Zoology emeritus, was one of the architects of this synthesis. His Systematics and the Origin of Species (1942) marked the climax of nearly three decades of work that spanned scientific disciplines and attacked the major problem left unsolved by Darwin, the origin of variation of physical features and traits among species. He and William B. Provine have outlined the development of this intellectual trend in a new book. The Evolutionary Synthesis: Perspectives on the Unification of Biology, published by the Harvard University Press...
...state legislature in Oklahoma is now considering measures to curb the thefts, including a law allowing police to halt oil tanker trucks on the highways and demand to see papers that prove the origin of the load. Meanwhile, several oil firms have engaged an outfit called Oilfield Security Patrol Inc. to keep heavy guard over their well sites. Company President Jack Gibson, an ex-policeman, is afraid that curbing the thievery could get rough. Says he: "When a guy is sitting there with $8,000 worth of hot oil in his truck, he is not going to let someone talk...
Teaching creationism in schools does not promote religion any more than evolution does. Both require belief. Actually, the origin of man is more than a matter of science vs. religion. If man was created by a determined act, then we can infer that man is worth something to his creator, and not just an evolved housefly, with no purpose and no destiny...
From which of the apes did man get his ability to debate his own origin...