[Taxacom] Origin of Species' 150th anniversary

[Robin Leech]

Perhaps many in the various media are Creationists?
Robin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb at istar.ca>
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Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Taxacom] Origin of Species' 150th anniversary


> Moretzsohn, Fabio wrote:
>
>> I was surprised and saddened that the 150th anniversary of the
>> publication of Darwin's Origin of Species last week, Nov. 24, passed
>> without much notice in the media...
>
> * The Ottawa Citizen's centre-spread article is at
> http://www.ottawacitizen.com/travel/Charles+Darwin+still+evokes+howls+protest/2249405/story.html
>
> Also the CBC Ideas program has been running a series of biographical
> pieces about Darwin which even some who consider him a model citizen
> regard as cringingly obsequious.
>
> Maybe what we need is memorials to all the whoop and holler that was
> emitted at the 100th anniversary of the Origin, in 1959.
>
> fred.
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> If we'd been meant to refer to species by made-up vernacular names,
> God wouldn't have created Linnaeus!
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