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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.'"
he had no knowledge of genetics or the mechanism of inheritance, and was most certainly not aware of anything such as DNA. ----- Which is why he couldn't have foreseen the fact that evolution in single steps can not happen on a cellular level--- one of the theory's largest roadblocks. But whatever :-P
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Darwin was expecting that there would be abundant evidence of his theory, so much so, that he said that without evidence his theory should be discarded. They're still looking for those missing transitional forms. It's hard to find something that does not exist. The very reason we have the classification system that we all had to learn in high school biology class (kingdom-phylum-class-order-family-genus-species) is because there are no transitional forms. D'oh! "....responsible scientists should make the honest declaration that we don't have any idea how life could possibly have come into existence from the inorganic world." - Robert Shapiro, Professor of Chemistry at NYU and expert on DNA research 1987
Well, if you think about it, there are only two choices: Creation or Evolution. There is no third possibility. The present evidence does not support evolution but do support Creation, such as the so-called Cambrian Explosion where there was a sudden burst of new diverse life forms in a relatively short span of time. There's the classification system I mentioned.
You cannot prove or disprove either theory, but the evolutionists are not being honest in their proclamation that science supports their theory.
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.
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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... :-)
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.
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