Reinventing Darwin: Quotable things he never said
February 11, 2009 by Marlowe Hood
A copy of Charles Darwin's book "Origin of Species" is pictured in front of a stone bust of Charles Darwin at London's Natural History Musuem in 2006. Darwin, born 200 years ago Thursday, single-handedly shapeshifted our understanding of the natural world.
Even the guardians of Darwin's flame got it wrong. Charles Darwin, born 200 years ago Thursday, single-handedly shapeshifted our understanding of the natural world.
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Also: Nothing "just happens". THERE IS A PLAN!
A bigger problem for the tiny airline, he explained, is that some consumers associate Darwin with extinction.'
Some sense of humor here!
Poor Darwin, his ideas were taken to exaggeration everywhere and some people take him as some sort of prophet of scientism, unfortunately.
And you know this how?
Who is responsible for this plan? Is it responsible for Hitler, Stalin, and Ranavalona? Couldn't it have done a better job?
Where can we sue about this plan that improves the few by killing the many? After all Darwin just said that it happened that way. He didn't blame anything for it. You just did.
Ethelred