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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Well. I tried to start the Origin (feel pretty stupid for calling it Evolution before) on the train back home, only my Cybook died on me.
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Your Cybook died while reading Darwin. My Kindle died while reading Darwin.
Oh, no! Are the fundamentalists right? Are we being punished for believing the world is older than 6,000 years? 
(It's bad enough that we give ear to that "upstart astrologer" Copernicus!*)
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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
... so I started a pbook instead - Edgar Morin's La méthode.
Unfortunately it's obvious this will be a tough one (it didn't help that my neighbors on the train were extra special noisy today) and it will take a lot of concentration to read, so I don't think I can read it and The Origin at the same time - sorry guys, hope you'll have fun without me! |
Why didn't you start a paper edition of
The Origin of Species?
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"People give ear to an upstart astrologer [Copernicus] who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the moon. Whoever wishes to appear clever must devise some new system, which of all systems is of course the very best. This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy; but sacred Scripture tells us that Joshua commanded the sun to stand still, and not the earth."
— Martin Luther (1483-1546). Quoted in Bertrand Russell,
A History of Western Philosophy, Book Three, pt. I, ch. VI.