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| Saturday, May 2, 2009 4:58PM | | | | The Inspired Scientist | Tags:
Darwin, Darwin's Dreampond, Tijis Goldschmidt, Harriet Washington, Sandeep Jauhar, Kimiko Hahn, Majora Carter
| | | | The program was intended for high school students and that pleased me because their knowledge of science might not be much greater than mine. I was not interested in science when I was young. I didn’t care why a bat looked like a bat or a zebra looked like a zebra. “God made them that way,” was the only answer I required. I was an adult when I read Darwin’s account of his trip on the Beagle
Evolution is slow moving, reliable. We trust in the old ways, value remembered ceremonies. The young groan at the words, “Because we’ve always done it that way,” but it gives comfort to the old that they can still comprehend the world. It also gives comfort to the incurious.
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