[ExI] Darwin & Mendel
Damien Broderick
thespike at satx.rr.com
Mon Jun 8 20:40:09 UTC 2009
At 10:24 PM 6/8/2009 +0200, Mirco wrote:
>Charles Darwin was not an atheist, IIRC.
He lost his Xian faith.
>He was a Christian.
He didn't make a song and dance about his disbelief. He was
conventional and shy.
>Was he buried where?
Yes, he was buried, unlike Jeremy Bentham, who was stuffed and mounted:
<http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://lostbutfound.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/08/01/jeremy_bentham_autoicon_7.jpg&imgrefurl=http://lostbutfound.typepad.com/theanswerstolost/2008/08/jeremy-benthams.html&usg=__aoP8TpNceU5EF8DnRmm-fnaSlqE=&h=800&w=600&sz=79&hl=en&start=4&um=1&tbnid=x73eydmKnRlc5M:&tbnh=143&tbnw=107&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJeremy%2BBentham%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1>
As you surely know, Darwin was planted in Westminster Abbey.
>Did Mendel do something wrong?
Yes, he forgot to tell anyone, thereby setting back genetics by a
generation or more.
Damien Broderick
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