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.'"

Comments

Re:Flame on!

[St8kout]

There is considerable debate about any so-called transitional forms being found. It is by no means unanimous by all scientists.

Anyone know the name of the renowned lifelong evolutionist who some 8 months ago at the age of 76 declared the evolutionary theory to be worthless? He still didn't want to believe in God, but now says evolution is impossible because of the lastest advances in microbiology. He spent his whole life teaching and proclaiming evolution as the only way and wrote dozens of books. I wished I had bookmarked the newspaper article as I cannot find it. I had assumed much more would be said about him but that one article is the only thing I've seen.

Absence of Discrete Species Proven?

[hotfireball]

I will believe Darwin's theory of evolution, if an absence of discrete species was proven with clear evidence of continuous intermediary forms all around the world instead. Yet his theory suffers hard due to obvious opposite facts.

P.S. Well, Slashdot is maybe an exception... :-)

Re:frames

[Marxist Hacker 42]

There is no "theory of intelligent design" (for valid definitions of theory). There is a faith-based intellectual exercise called "intelligent design", however.

You're incorrect on that one- the theory of intelligent design links cosmology to evolution, and is a direct refutation of a central hypothesis of quantum mechanics.

But far too many see only the surface, and fail to research.