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Currently, green space and street plantings are relatively similar throughout the Western world, regardless of differences in local climate, geography, and natural history.
Disgust, according to Charles darwin, is one of the six most basic, universal emotions. The facial expression of it,
But using a camera normally found only at major sporting events or on high-end Natural history documentaries,
Herd mentalitywriting in The American Naturalist, David Sloan Wilson quotes a buffalo expert named H. H. T. Prins,
the Willaman Professor of Biology and director of life sciences at Penn State university. oegraham and colleagues show beautifully the tradeoffs in the immune system as a balance that maximizes reproductive output.
working with scientists at the Rockefeller University and the American Museum of Natural history last year, discovered after analyzing DNA in 11 of 66 foods including the sheeps milk cheese
the University of Maryland and the Natural history Museum of Los angeles County have compared genetic sequences from 75 different species to draw a new family tree that includes every major arthropod lineage.
Bitty creatures called mystacocarids that live between grains of sand were captured by the Natural history Museums Regina Wetzer,
or John Ascher and Jerome Rozen of the American Museum of Natural history. It was Ascher who found L. gotham
#However, Stuart Hine, a senior entomologist at the Natural history Museum, said insects still may not solve all problems.
Aiden just won the Young Naturalist Award from the American Museum of Natural history. Its kids like this that make
Jr. and student Stuart A. Sweeney Smith at the City university of New york (CUNY) and the American Museum of Natural history (AMNH) first recognized the grain to be of a very special type, known as a calcium-aluminum
Dr. Ma then sent it to Dr. Anthony Kampf, Curator of Mineral Sciences at the Natural history Museum of Los angeles County (NHM), for X-ray diffraction study.
Darwin is watching!..After it was over, no one really wanted to help the guy inside...
Darwin, one of the great plant researchers, proposed what has become known as the root-brain#hypothesis. Darwin proposed that the tip of the root, the part that we call the meristem,
along with co-researchers from London s Natural history Museum and Vrije University in Brussels, brings the number of known caecilian families in the world to 10.
Shown here is Life science s Benchtop Genome Center 21. Gene therapy-Gene therapy is the use of DNA as a pharmaceutical agent to treat disease,
National Museum of Natural history on Oct 16. But with all Smithsonian facilities mired in shutdown woes the dinosaur's relocation had to be delayed until April 2014.</
As part of a new loan agreement the fossil is set to spend the next 50 years at the Smithsonian in Washington the most visited natural history museum in the world.</
The American Museum of Natural history in New york has a<em>Mamenchisaur</em>specimen with a 60-foot-long (18 m) total length a whopping 30 feet (9 m)
and big brained Harvard evolutionary biologist Jason Lieberman said during a public lecture on Nov 6 here at the American Museum of Natural history.
 At a discussion on the future of food here at the American Museum of Natural history on Tuesday (March 5) a panel of experts grappled with the issues of how society produces
and a research associate in the division of invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural history in New york city.
and behavioral adaptations said Adrian Lister a paleontologist at the Natural history Museum in London England.
ever since Darwin who called the origin of flowering plants an'abominable mystery'Hochuli said. These newfound fossils reveal that flowering plants may have existed more than 100 million years longer than previously thought.
since ancient times to serve as medicines with the ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder writing that they could help treat the eyes and skin.
Indeed when we pay attention to solid evolutionary theory namely Charles darwin's ideas about evolutionary continuity we see that we humans are not the only smart sentient and emotional beings.
The collection housed in the Museum of Natural history in Venice has a peculiarity: amateur mycologists collected 95 percent of the specimens and the collection is entirely curated by nonacademic volunteers.
#Darwin s Dark Knight: Scientist Risked Execution for Fox Study (Op-Ed) Brian Hare is an evolutionary anthropologist at Duke university
 For almost a century Darwin's biggest idea had a hole in it. To illustrate natural selection Darwin did not directly suggest that humans shared a common ancestor with apes.
Instead he used a concept that everyone was familiar with domestication. Everyone knew that you could selectively breed dogs for certain physical characteristics like size
Darwin wanted to stretch this idea a little further and suggest that instead of a human hand it was natural selection that drove evolution.
 The problem was that Darwin could not say how domestication started in the first place. No one was taking notes
Darwinism was seen as a justification that capitalists should have millions and workers live in poverty because the capitalists had superior strength or intelligence.
#Darwin's Frogs Are in Steep Decline Some of nature's most fascinating fathers may be at risk of extinction.
Male Darwin's frogs swallow their offspring in the tadpole stage incubate their young in their vocal sacs
40 Freaky Frog Photos Shrinking range Charles darwin first discovered the frogs while traveling in Chile in 1834.
Scientists who later studied the mouth-brooding animals found that there are actually two species naming one Rhinoderma darwinii (Darwin's frog) and the other Rhinoderma rufum (Chile Darwin's frog.
The findings suggest Darwin's frogs have disappeared from or at least rapidly declined in many locations where they were recently abundant the researchers wrote in a paper published online June 12 in the journal PLOS ONE.
And Darwin's frogs don't seem to be adapting; the survey showed that the remaining populations were clinging to their shrinking native forests.
The researchers recommended that Darwin's frogs be listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN.
Chile Darwin's frogs meanwhile should get a possibly extinct tag the researchers said. Other factors could be contributing to the decline of Darwin's frog.
Their populations have taken a hit from volcanic eruptions in the southern Andes the researchers say. What's more the African clawed frog was introduced to Chile in the 1970s.
if Darwin's frogs have been affected by the fungus in the wild but the researchers say it's worth investigating.
Extinct Aussie cousins Darwin's frogs once had a close analog in eastern Australia known as gastric brooding frogs.
Charles darwin's ideas about evolutionary continuity) has been borne out by numerous studies and many surprises have also been forthcoming.
Their influence on the environment has interested scientists since Charles darwin. Â So it came as a shock earlier this year
As Darwin mused It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have organized these lowly creatures.
7 (Billion) Population Milestones Entomophagy has picked up momentum over the years Louis Sorkin an entomologist at the American Museum of Natural history in New york city
a German naturalist and scholar later examined all the earliest documents on Wild Peter and concluded that he must have lived with people until shortly before he was captured
A German naturalist first described the animal in 1836 but little research has been conducted on the animal
since then due to the logistical challenge of traveling to these remote islands. 7 Most Misleading Animal Names A team of naturalists based at the College of Micronesia has conducted now the first-ever field study of the Mortlock Islands
This latest work detailed Tuesday (Oct 29) in the journal Zookeys only scratches the surface of P. pelagicus ecology Wiles said andhe hopes that it will motivate other naturalists
and even being exhibited at the Louisville Zoo the National Zoo and The bronx Zoo in the 1960s and 1970s according to a statement from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history.
and a zoologist at the North carolina Museum of Natural sciences in Raleigh said in the statement.
and giving it a name is where everything starts lead study author Kristofer Helgen a zoologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history said in the statement.
A time before Darwinism It might sound strange that an organism's genetic code could be the result of crowdsourcing.
This descent with modification as Darwin put it eventually allows a population of interbreeding organisms
and they exhibit enormous diversity said researcher Nancy Simmons at the American Museum of Natural history. if (typeof (defined poll functions)==undefined'&& $(#poll javascript).
and others working on morphology said researcher John Wible at the Carnegie Museum of Natural history in Pittsburgh.
We couldn't have accomplished this without Morphobank said researcher Michelle Spaulding at Carnegie Museum of Natural history.
and sweating people said Geoff Gallice a graduate student of entomology at the Florida Museum of Natural history who has witnessed butterflies flocking to turtle tears in the western Amazon rain forest.
and friend of Erasmus Darwin used infusions of foxglove with surprising success to treat dropsy a disease now known as edema that can cause swelling bad enough to rip open the skin.
The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history bought the<a href=http://www. livescience. com/16981-hope-diamond-cursed. html>Hope Diamond</a>in 1958
what we're finding at the base of the diatom tree are things that are long and tubular much like the tube inside of a paper towel roll said Edward Theriot professor of molecular evolution at The University of Texas at Austin and director of its Texas Natural science
#Science Experiments for Kids Children are natural scientists. Their curiosity is boundless and with a little supervision during these easy science experiments even very young children can do oereal science.
s American Museum of Natural history.</</p><p>" Our Global Kitchen: Food Nature Culture" opens Nov 17 taking visitors on an interactive visual tour of food as sustenance entertainment ritual and more.
and home gardeners (including Charles darwin) who manipulated plant growth with music. Could a sense of touch be why plants seem to respond to sound?
The natural history of this spider was described in September in the journal Zookeys. Follow us@livescienceâ Facebook &â Google+.
Charles darwin dined on all the species he described including more than 40 tortoises. Technological advances mean today's scientists can sample Antarctic ice cores ancient water invasive species
You can contribute phenology data to Nature s Notebook an online program the USA National Phenology Network manages that collects observations of leaf phenology from professional and amateur naturalists.
The foundation has approached also the Smithsonian Museum of Natural history in Washington D c. the Estuarium on Dauphin Island Ala
#What An Ancient Lake Reveals at Its Core Kay Behrensmeyer is a curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history.
and gains of visceral fat (belly fat) that surrounds organs according to the paper in the journal Life sciences.
Another commonly cited use of the phrase is American naturalist John Burroughs 1875 set of essays Birds and Bees Sharp Eyes and other Papers.
Famed naturalist John Muir fell in love with Yosemite and became the chief voice in its preservation.
& Tear-Drinking Images It was one of those natural history moments that you long to see up close de la Rosa said in a statement.
if they're upside down said lead study author Jean Just a taxonomist at the Natural history Museum of Denmark.
and responsiveness to therapy often demonstrating a remarkable insight into the natural history of disease processes as we understand them.
We know a bit about it in the high Arctic said study researcher Jaelyn Eberle the curator of fossil vertebrates at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural history.
and the identification of fossilized leaf fragments we know that their habitat at the Tar pits was at a much lower elevation during the Ice age said Anna Holden an entomologist at the Natural history Museum of Los angeles County (NHM)
Dan Chaney an expert on ancient plants at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history; and Lucã a Desoto a professor at Portugal's University of Coimbra and a leader in analyzing tree growth cell by cell.
The vast majority of feathered dinosaurs in Liaoning are collected by farmers who live there said study author Luis Chiappe a paleontologist and director of the Dinosaur Institute at the Natural history Museum of Los angeles County.
and Canada combined Malcolm Campbell receives funding from the Natural sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and from Genome Canada.
what is known currently study researcher Gavin Svenson an invertebrate zoologist at The Cleveland Museum of Natural history said in a statement.
and group shows at venues including the Berlin Botanical Museum the Montalvo Arts Center the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the American Museum of Natural history.
Dinosaurs That Learned To fly Finding a new species Anzu wylieli's story starts about a decade ago with paleontologist Tyler Lyson now at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural history.
At the conference Matthew Lamanna a vertebrate paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural history in Pittsburgh came over with surprising news:
which genetic changes occur during evolution to work out how much time was needed for all that diversity to evolve said Terry Brown a life sciences faculty member at the University of Manchester in England who was involved not in the study.
and ecology Sandra Rehan lead NHAES researcher and assistant professor of biological sciences at the University of New hampshire's College of Life sciences and Agriculture (COLSA) said in a statement.
or even extinction of a species. John Wraith NHAES director and dean of the College of Life sciences and Agriculture expressed enthusiasm for the bee hotel project and its related studies noting the impact that pollinators
and 22 feet (6. 65 m) Deep in 1917 American naturalist Jesse Walter Fewkes pegged the structure as a prehistoric water reservoir.
of anthropology at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural history. It's hard to believe that Native americans who understood the landscape
Now scientists with the Illinois Natural history Survey are poring through the 160 pounds (73 kilograms) of raw amber from the Dominican republic
Amazing Amber Trove Rediscovered in Illinois This is a massively important resource said Sam Heads an insect paleontologist at the Illinois Natural history Survey who searched the museum's nooks and crannies for the amber collection.
But the collection at the Illinois Natural history Survey a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois has never been sorted for beauty or for the best specimens.
Heads named the locust Electrotettix attenboroughi after British naturalist and filmmaker Sir David Attenborough. A description of the new species was published today (July 30) in the journal Zookeys.
A dinosaur spider armored fish and ghost shrimp are some the other creatures named for the naturalist.
As a computational biologist I work in several fields of life science primarily in ecology and genetics and particularly with plants.
Charles darwin of course! He is a hero not only for his contributions to science but also for his fascinating life story his diligence and tenacity the challenges he faced in bringing radical ideas to the pretty conservative scientific audience of his time and sailing around the world!
and natural history of four plant species. Pollan doesn't just describe the utility of plants he explores how humans
They can live on desert mountains as high as 4000 feet (1200 m). They get most of their water from eating plants to survive according to the Natural history Museum of Los angeles. Rams are herbivores.
and naturalists use when exploring the natural world. Our goal was to give kids an understanding of the science underlying healthy ecosystems and sustainability
Nature Newslike many remote islands, the Galapagos islands that fired Charles darwin's imagination are both a hotbed of biodiversity
If we applied the same standards to Darwin's work, we'd say what a terrible experimenter he was.
and Animal Use in the Life sciences meets in Rome. http//www. aimgroup. eu/2009/WC7 31 august-4 september The World meteorological organization hosts the Third world Climate Conference in Geneva. http://www
was removed from her post after she sought to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles darwin's On the Origin of Species in the March issue (see'Turkish scientists claim Darwin censorship'.
'The articles on evolution and the cover with its picture of Darwin were pulled from the issue at the last minute.
and the agency promised a new special issue on Darwinism (see'Funder moves to quell Turkish censorship row').
T ŠBà °TAK produced a special Darwin issue in June, which included translations of articles from Scientific American and no Turkish authors.
It will be split into seven separately directed centres, such as life sciences and materials science, and projects will be monitored by a new oversight committee.
San francisco, won the prize for life science and medicine for his work on molecular mechanisms of pain.
a 2009 report sponsored by China's National Natural science Foundation and China Geological Survey (CGS), part of the Ministry of Land and Resources (MOLR),
says Robert Carneiro, an anthropologist at the American Museum of Natural history in New york. Gary Feinman, an anthropologist at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
and natural scientists, working shoulder-to-shoulder at Tel Megiddo and several other important Israeli sites. In the past, all too often, archaeologists and scientists worked together,
says Menno Schilthuizen, an evolutionary ecologist at the National Museum of Natural history of The netherlands in Leiden,
Nature Newsthe sight of a feather in a peacock's tail, Charles darwin wrote in 1860,
But Darwin eventually made peace with the peacock's train, and its plumage has become the poster child for his theory of sexual selection, in
because Darwin had suggested it, and nobody had gone out and tested the idea, she says. As she expected,
including attention from Creationists who were delighted to see Darwin questioned. Petrie and The french scientists published a rebuttal5.
an environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.
a palaeontologist at the Swedish Museum of Natural history and a co-author on the paper. That evidence comes from the fossil's shape:
Claus Nielsen, a retired evolutionary biologist at the Natural history Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen, doesn't think Eoandromeda represents comb jellies either.
a developmental endocrinologist at the National Museum of Natural history in Paris. Policy Durban deal After negotiations that ran into the early morning, tired politicians at the climate talks in Durban,
Paola Villa, an archaeologist at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural history in Boulder, argues that further searches are needed."
and was transferred to the Charles darwin Research Station in Puerto Ayora the following year. Conservationists launched a long and frustrating campaign to persuade the reptile to mate with females from other Galapagos islands1.
But as Charles darwin came to appreciate after his brief sojourn in the Galapagos in 1835,
says Herta Steinkellner, a molecular biologist at the University of Natural resources and Life sciences in Vienna.
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural sciences
Massive Malaysian ivory cache seizedit has been reported widely this week that Malaysian authorities have confiscated 24 tonnes of elephant ivory.
says study co-author Nancy Simmons, curator in charge of the department of mammalology at the American Museum of Natural history in New york."
Venture declines US venture-capital investments shrank 12%to US$5. 9 billion in the first quarter of 2013, with the life sciences and clean technology particularly affected, according to a report by accountancy firm Pricewaterhousecoopers
First time deals for start-ups in the life sciences dropped by 52%to $98 million the lowest level since 1996.
Charles darwin also puzzled over them. Even now, entomologists are trying to understand how the insects peculiar life cycles evolved,
was proposed by Charles darwin. But he was unable to find convincing evidence of it. Karihaloo explains that he
These pictures and more are on display at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2013 exhibition at the Natural history Museum in London, from 18 october
But at the end of November he is scheduled to move to Australia to take charge of food, health and life sciences at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia.
and conquer the world some 160 million years ago an evolutionary explosion described by Charles darwin as an"abominable mystery.
Darwin was bothered by such traits since his theory of evolution couldn't completely explain them (The sight of a feather in a peacock's tail
whenever I gaze at it makes me feel sick! he wrote to a friend. Moreover sex allows an unrelated possibly inferior partner to insert half a genome into the next generation.
Darwin was bothered by such traits since his theory of evolution couldn t completely explain them (âÂ#Âoethe sight of a feather in a peacock s tail
whenever I gaze at it makes me feel sick! âÂ# he wrote to a friend) Thats kind of funny
I am interested in trying something out at some point. ne peuvent pas profiter de mon repasevery year the North carolina Museum of Natural science holds a Bugfest (September 21 this year.
Kristofer Helgen curator of mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history and author of the paper stumbled on some olinguito skins
since 1842 when Charles darwin brought them over after he discovered them in Chile. We also have the stunning blue Puya berteroniana. 1. Good and evil do not exist-this is a plant that wants to survive just like those sheep eat grass to survive-news flash-they KILL the grass.
This primate was advanced already fairly in terms of the evolutionary tree says Christopher Beard a coauthor of the study and paleontologist from the Carnegie Museum of Natural history.
It's adding a lot of depth of history says John Flynn another coauthor and curator for the American Museum of Natural history.
Darwin postulated that species change into other species by a gradual collection of mutations wherein the specimens with the'stronger'mutations survive.
I have come to the conclusion Darwinism has failed fundamentally to prove anything it postulated. Yet we are subjected to a daily diet of fairy stories
Seems the moment one challenges Darwinism one is greeted with the following steps: 1) Ridicule 2)' You don't understand evolution'arguments 3) Exasperated irritable referrals to other people 4) Wildly inaccurate statements about the nature of species and the so-called evidences 5) Eventual
and explain why fully completed species appear millions of years earlier than Darwin ever anticipated
These new ideas fall under the banner'Neo-darwinism'.'Quite fascinating. When one questions this and asks'were the old Darwinists wrong then?'
because Darwinism is a fraudulent pseudo-science and cannot provide any. Darwinism is the ignorance
and blind faith of those who accuse Christians of ignorance and blind faith. A tiny beady-eyed long-tailed primate with hand-like feet is now the worldã¢Â#Â#s oldest known fossil primate skeleton...
Darwin actually thought mutations (sports as they were called then) only played a small role in evolution.
He thought the main driving force was from organisms continually being pressured to adapt over generations sort of like Lamarck's idea but much slower.
When scientists eventually discovered that heredity was passed on in discrete units as Gregor Mendel had begun to discover back in Darwin's time it looked like evolution was dead in the water so the evolutionary scientists put their heads together and decided mutations might provide the new
So Neo-darwinism was born. Darwinism took hold because people came to believe that it was the job of science to explain everything the past as well as the present how things began as well as how they operate now.
Science is the study of nature so of course any scientific explanation of how things started can only appeal to natural processes.
and expert on mammalian evolution at the American Museum of Natural history to find out why the US is stuck with lame squirrels and pigeons and stuff rather than cool monkeys.
#What If Darwin Had existed Never? What would a world without Darwin look like? Many have argued that science would have developed much the same.
His theory of evolution by natural selection was in the air at the time an inevitable product of the way people were thinking about themselves
and the world they lived in. If Darwin hadn't proposed it then someone else would have most obviously the naturalist we know as the co-discoverer of natural selection Alfred Russel Wallace.
Events would have unfolded more or less as we know them although without the iconic term Darwinism to denote the evolutionary paradigm.
But Wallace's version of the theory was not the same as Darwin's and he had very different ideas about its implications.
And since Wallace conceived his theory in 1858 any equivalent to Darwin's 1859 Origin of Species would have appeared years later.
There probably would have been an evolutionary movement in the late nineteenth century but it would have been based on different theoretical foundations--theories that were tried actually out in our own world
and that for a time were thought to overshadow Darwin's. The impact of Darwin's theory was limited not to science itself.
Darwinism was rescued eventually when the new science of genetics undermined the plausibility of the rival theories of evolution following the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900.
I suspect that in a world without Darwin it would have taken until the early twentieth century for the theory of natural selection to come to the attention of most biologists.
In our world evolutionary developmental biology had to challenge the simpleminded gene-centered Darwinism of the 1960s to generate a more sophisticated paradigm.
The impact of Darwin's theory was limited of course not to science itself--it has been seen as a major contributor to the rise of materialism and atheism.
In the eyes of its critics Darwin's theory of natural selection inspired generations of social thinkers and ideologues to promote harsh policies known as social Darwinism.
Creationists frequently claim that Darwin was directly responsible for generating the vision of Aryan racial superiority that inspired the Nazis to attempt the extermination of the Jews.
Apparently it is not enough for critics to challenge Darwinism on allegedly scientific grounds--they contend that it is also immoral and hence dangerous.
what happens in a world without Darwin is driven by the hope of using history to undermine the claim that the theory of natural selection inspired the various forms of social Darwinism.
The world in which Darwin did not write the Origin of Species would have experienced more or less all of our history's social and cultural developments.
because the real-world opponents of Darwinism were active in lending support to the ideologies most of us now find so distasteful.
In the world without Darwin the horrors would still exist but the theory of natural selection would not have the bogeyman image associated with it by its critics
We need to think harder about the wider tensions in our culture responsible for the ideologies that came to have the inoffensive Darwin as their figurehead.
This article was reprinted with permission from Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin by Peter J. Bowler published by the University of Chicago Press. 2013 by The University of Chicago.
All rights reserved. What if anything lol. Evolution'theory'would of develop anyways yes. But evolution is not the only answer to the development of life On earth either.
The same would be true of the theory of evolution. Sometimes you have to step away from those around you to clearly see the thing you re observing;
They have happened many many times in the past before Darwin (and others) came along. The reasons are endless
but are in transition for their future descendants to have working wings to support Darwins theory.
because each time a discovery is made we try to fit it into Darwins model but it don't exactly fit
So Darwin would have been had better off he jumped overboard.@@nabone it is important to have a least a fundamental grasp of evolution...
In spite of your ill-will towards Darwin the evidence was always there to be discovered and would have been regardless.
While Darwin was first to publish a coherent theory of biological evolution and he deserves much credit for doing
The theory of evolution would likely have emerged from other sources --or it wouldn't. In either case it doesn't really matter.
There is not enought randomness in nature to support Darwins claims. For every species that is camouflage there are a hundred in brilliant colors saying I am here eat me.
Modern opponents to Darwin are so ignorant of what the man was about they do not realize they have more in common with Darwin than Evolutionists do.
Darwin had the same concerns they do. He said To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances for admitting different amounts of light
and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration could have been formed by natural selection seems I freely confess absurd in the highest degree.
Darwin was ignorant about DNA just like Creationists are. Modern Evolutionists give Darwin credit for having the right idea
but the flimsy evidence Darwin had at the time was mocked then and would still be mocked today
just as Creationists are mocked Darwin had no way of showing that all animals were related much less plants and animals.
Evolutionists can simply use DNA to show that all life on the planet is based on similar DNA
Darwin would be concerned just as about the moral and spiritual implications of modern genetics as Creationists are.
So why do Creationists continue to attack Darwin a man who was as afraid of his own discoveries as they are today
while ignorantly chowing down on genetically modified organisms that would have made Darwin throw up his organically grown lunch?
Yes even if Darwin never existed it is human nature to fabricate a story and sell it as truth when we don't have the answer to something just like the creationist
Because Darwin theory has been accepted widely as truth in the scientific community it is difficult to treat data objectively
What if Darwin had existed never Well they probably wouldn't be called the Darwin awards but the same people would still win. www. youtube. com/watch?
If Darwin never existed then none of us would ever know the joy of being a monkeys uncle rofl...
if Darwin had existed not or had died prior to writing Origin of the Species. To assume someone else would have offered the same concept
Whether folks were working on similar ideas during the time of Darwin is not relevant (i e. the moment in time when an idea bore fruit.
The beatification of Darwin as a sort of minor god in science is more of a cornerstone for secular progressives-than a fact of science.
Poor ole Darwin barely got his thesis in under the wire. Several other credentialed scientist were diddling with the concept.
Darwin cooked some books (burned a letter)- got published (more or less first) and spent the rest of his life in litigation.
Science (such as it was had compiled enough observations to make this theoretical leap with or without Darwin.
Darwin didn't do a particularly bad job of it. His thesis stood up well-well based on many of his own personal observations.
Still Darwin was one of his own greatest detractors. Evolution (as appealing as it is to the secular mind) simply doesn't have enough smoke
But Even Darwin lost sleep over this. Just consider an eye. Some where some thing sloshing around completely unaware of light-decides that vision would be a survival advantage.
What I believe that Darwin stumbled upon (and Mendelssohn too-for that matter) is genetic adaptability. There does appear to be excess code
Evolutionary theory would have developed in the absence of Charles darwin. Indeed Charles darwin's theory of evolution was highly similar to the theory proposed by his own uncle Erasmus Darwin decades earlier.
Charles darwin's main contribution was not his theory but rather his experimental evidence that he collected to support it.
In the same way that Darwin did not invent evolutionary theory or more to the point that evolutionary theory was a product of the general intellectual gestalt of the time so too was social Darwinism.
If Charles darwin's work had existed never the intellectuals would have to have invented him. Class warfare race warfare constructive destruction survival of the fittest Machiavellian manipulation violent revolution and revolt were
(and often still are considered the birth places of new life new order new worlds. Darwin was both a symptom and a contributor to this general sense.
The Nazis did not become racists because of Darwin but they were happy to use his work to further their cause
because it meshed so well with their own agenda. Well it should! Germany at the time was virtually bursting at the seams with the very intellectuals who championed the great purges that consume the dross
and these people were all across Europe. France certainly thought highly of their own revolutionary accomplishments in this department;
or lived for a while in Paris). You cannot divorce Darwin from Nazi racial theories so easily as claiming that Darwin merely told a sterile scientific truth that the Nazis happened to hijack.
Darwin saw what he saw through the lens of his time and place just as the Nazis did
Darwin made observations in nature and published it as a theory. had done he not so somebody else would have.
The fact that the Nazis used Darwinism was just opportunistic they used religions even Germanic mythologies as well.
Darwin had nothing to do with the thinking of the Nazis and there is considerable time between them anyhow.
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