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12 Feb 2009 10:13

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Tech: In the court of public opinion, Darwin’s wrong

39% of people believe in evolution, according to a new Gallup poll. There’s a lot of indifference: 36% don’t have an opinion on Darwin. source

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10 Feb 2009 10:28

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Tech: Why should Darwin get all the evolution attention?

A MacArthur Fellow poses the question. Carl Safina, in an essay in the New York Times, says that by putting all the attention on the guy who discovered evolution, it’s allowed later advances – Gregor Mendel’s patterns of heredity, DNA, developmental biology, and genetic medicine – to get ignored by those who don’t support the theory of evolution . Safina claims Charles Darwin has unfairly become the talking point. The dude could’ve turned 200 this week, by the way. source

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