Another reason why we need a Beagle:
articles like this. An excellent rebuttal of intelligent design by the Guardian's science correspondent James Randerson. It's not the article (which is good) but it's that Mr. R. feels the need to write at all. It was worth a wider airing to I sent the URL to PZ Myers at Pharygula.
Darwin posted his first copies of On the Origin of Species in 1859, and since then the evidence for evolution has piled up by the year. But still the creationists and their recent, slightly evolved offspring the intelligent designers are trying to argue that these beliefs are worthy of equal airtime in classrooms.
They aren't. Our modern world is created and sustained by applied science. We need to sustain science as a profession. Well, our replica will play a part in that, allowing some young scientists to do some inspirational fieldwork: how about sail a square rigger to Brazil, do some field work there. And those who can't be there hauling ropes will be able join in through an interactive website. And it'll be an icon around which the pro-Darwin, pro-science, pro-evolution movement can coalesce and can USE.
Now get in touch and help us build the damn thing.
Tags: hms beagle, hms beagle replica, intelligent design
Darwin posted his first copies of On the Origin of Species in 1859, and since then the evidence for evolution has piled up by the year. But still the creationists and their recent, slightly evolved offspring the intelligent designers are trying to argue that these beliefs are worthy of equal airtime in classrooms.
They aren't. Our modern world is created and sustained by applied science. We need to sustain science as a profession. Well, our replica will play a part in that, allowing some young scientists to do some inspirational fieldwork: how about sail a square rigger to Brazil, do some field work there. And those who can't be there hauling ropes will be able join in through an interactive website. And it'll be an icon around which the pro-Darwin, pro-science, pro-evolution movement can coalesce and can USE.
Now get in touch and help us build the damn thing.
Tags: hms beagle, hms beagle replica, intelligent design
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