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Charles Darwin Online

eldavojohn writes "The entire works of Charles Darwin have been made available online. It includes scanned works that were owned by his family — many of which were signed by the author. The University of Cambridge hopes to have this completed by 2009 and is only estimated to be about half way done. If you have any love for books whatsoever, I suggest you take a look at how they present the user with each book. Take the very first edition of On the Origin of Species, for example, where they use frames to display the text on the left with the original image on the right. From the Reuters article: 'Other items in the free collection of 50,000 pages and 40,000 images are the first editions of the Journal of Researchers, written in 1839, The Descent of Man, The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Beagle, which includes his observations during his five-year trip to the Amazon, Patagonia and the Pacific, and the first five editions of the Origin of Species.'"

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  1. Re:frames by gkhan1 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So in other words, this is what you are saying: "If we found out that the universe is made from tiny pixies that have pink hair, but they are so small we can't see them, then ID is wrong".

    You obviously have no idea how the scientific method works (if you did, you'd know that it's called Avogadros number, no agrivados number). This is what you need: give me a "If you do X, and Y happens, ID is wrong" or "If we find X by observing Y, ID is wrong". Concrete examples, concrete and testable. For every other dicipline of science, that experiment exists. But it doesn't for ID.