Thursday, January 22, 2009

Celebrating Darwin

WOW! According to a story in the latest Oklahoma Gazette , the University of Oklahoma is one of the few places on the planet where you will find a complete collection of first editions of the works of Charles Darwin!

OU is planning a year-long celebration of the bicentennial of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his On the Origins of Species.

2 comments:

  1. What a strange twist. Professor Hale of the U of O seems to be calling for abolition of the separation of Church and State in the USA--so that right-wing religionists can talk in State schools about issues important to them! And then, he implies, there won't be so much opposition to the theory of evolution here!

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  2. Hale is full of it. American schools have religious studies classes, where religions tend to be studied in comparison with each other. He does seem to be trying to pull a fast one, doesn't he?

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