[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] AWARE On The Air tonight at ten, channel six

[C. G. Estabrook]

If you mean me, I'm not anti-evolution (nor am I a biblicist).

But it's quite amazing to me that some people who consider themselves 
progressives, ask politicians whether they believe in evolution, rather than 
whether they believe in paying off bankers or killing people in Asia.  Obama, 
e.g., believes in all these things and has all along.


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> I suppose science/biology is also a "touchstone of liberal orthodoxy 
> today", according to our new anti-evolution exponent of AWARE on the Air.
> Better to believe in the bible…, that touchstone of fundamentalism. 
> 
> As an aside, some credit the idea of natural selection, fundamental to 
> evolution,  to Alfred Russel Wallace, not Charles Darwin. There is a 
> book called /The Darwin Conspiracy/ that forcefully makes the claim that 
> Darwin pilferred the thought and was quite a disreputable character. Its 
> author, Roy Davies, spoke on the campus recently.
> 
> --mkb
> 
> On Nov 24, 2009, at 9:49 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> On this day in 1859 Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of 
>> Species": its place in the rather plodding history of 19c. biology is 
>> largely overshadowed by its mystifying role as a touchstone of liberal 
>> orthodoxy today. 
>