The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition Author: Charles Darwin Julian Huxley | Language: English | ISBN:
B002JF1N0A | Format: EPUB
The Origin Of Species: 150th Anniversary Edition Description
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world.
- File Size: 948 KB
- Print Length: 500 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0451529065
- Publisher: Signet Classic; Rep Anv edition (September 2, 2003)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002JF1N0A
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I read this book after discussing "intelligent design" with someone. It had never has occurred to me that the theory and facts of evolution wouldn't be more compelling to someone than Bible myth that wasn't intended to teach science at all.
Darwin's writing style can be awkward. He is working with a lot of facts to try to discern some laws. It isn't easy material to begin with. After a long delay of collecting evidence and formulating ideas, he was in a hurry to publish and may have skipped a useful rewrite to increase readability. He is clearly not adverse to long sentences.
Nevertheless, he does present himself clearly and in an exemplary manner for a scientist. He packs his presentation with supportive facts. He presents tentative laws to explains what he observed and then sees how well this explain the data he had collected. He points out his assumptions, raises doubts about them and responds sincerely to those doubts.
As can be seen in this book, Charles Darwin was scientific, inquiring, open, honest, and genuinely concerned about advancing human knowledge about the natural world.
It is surprising, as Darwin explains, how much can be accounted for given sufficient time (millions of years, not 5000, as scientific dating methods show), given small variations within any single generation and given conditions of scarcity. Darwin recognized that what may be hardest of us to accept is that we can not see the cumulative changes that took those millions of years to occur. He does make an effort to explain why the fossil record has gaps for which intermediate forms of life are missing.
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