Tag: history
Cosmos Revives the Scientific Martyr Myth of Giordano Bruno
The materialist bias of the producers, editors, and writers of Cosmos is so complete that they couldn’t be bothered even to check Wikipedia.
Wikipedia Invents a Mythical Account of Lincoln and Darwin
Wikipedia makes up a fanciful story about Abraham Lincoln reading and being deeply moved by Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln and Intelligent Design
There was one book about evolution in which Lincoln seems to have taken a definite interest.
Postcard from Borneo: The People
Alfred Wallace would come to see in human beings something special, unique in the natural world, far and away qualitatively different from anything else in the animal kingdom.
Postcard from Borneo: The Wallace Centennial Conference, Day 2
This was a great place to meet people from all over the world, brightened by the hospitality of the Malaysian people in a city that is easy to love.