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Darwin's Doubt

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Jul 9, 2013.

  1. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Former NYT science/technology writer Virginia Heffernan: I'm a creationist because it "seems as plausible ... as astrophysics" and it's a "better story":

    http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/07/virginia_heffernan_s_creationism_why_evolution_matters.html

    Heffernan's piece:

    http://news.yahoo.com/why-im-a-creationist-141907217.html
     
  2. Greenhorn

    Greenhorn Active Member

    Yahoo--which has a newsfeed laden with stuff from the Blaze and the Daily Caller--now has this wingnut. Great. They will undoubtedly hire a new paleontology correspondent whose first post will be "The Reality of the Flintstones."
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    I wonder if Virginia Heffernan was required to go to the Yahoo! office to write that piece.
     
  4. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Review | An attack on evolution, disguised as a Darwin biography

    Jerry A. Coyne is professor emeritus in the department of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “Speciation” (with H. Allen Orr), “Why Evolution Is True” and “Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible.”

    I’ve been an evolutionary biologist for nearly half a century and have read hundreds of books about Charles Darwin and his science. If we exclude books written by creationists — a group that A.N. Wilson doesn’t identify with — “Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker” is by far the worst. Appalling in its sloppy arguments and unrelenting and unwarranted negativity, its most infuriating flaw is its abysmal failure to get the most basic facts right. It’s a grossly inaccurate and partisan attack on both Darwin and evolution.
     
  5. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    Darwin was more proud of his work with plants.
     
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