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On the Origin of Species is 150 years old!
I can think of no higher tribute on this the 150th Anniversary of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species than quoting in full its final paragraph:
It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; inheritance which is almost im
Some Kenneth Miller links
Those of you who missed Ken Millers wonderful BYU address are in for a treat. A friend of mine just complied a list of things you may find useful:
The Nova Program about Intelligent Design – Judgment Day:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/beta/evolution/intelligent-design-trial.html
The link to Kenneth Miller on the Colbert Report:
http://www.millerandlevine.com/talks/colbert.html
And finally, here is his entire lecture given at Brown University (Almost identical to what was given at BYU):
BYU Wheatley Institute brings in “Intelligent Design” expert to combat New Atheism—Alas
Last week by some convergence of irony and slapstick naivety the Wheatley Institute at BYU brought Michael Behe to their symposium “Responding to the The New Atheism.” Here’s the write-up in the Studies & Doctrine section of Mormon Times. Why did they report on the only talk not worth hearing?
This is ironic because few people have done more to indirectly support the new atheism than Michael Behe. His promotion of the idea of “Intellegent Design (ID),” mocks everything for which science stands and feeds into the agenda of the new atheism perfectly. The
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