Comments on: Darwin https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=27 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:51:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.10 By: jennifer https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-61 Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:51:55 +0000 /?p=27#comment-61 Yes, there probably were people in Darwin’s time who restrained from the literal interpretation of the bible, but that’s not to say that there weren’t people who didn’t. Even today, here in Canada, there are many people who take the bible for its literal meaning. So who’s to say that mrs. darwin wasn’t one of those people back then? who would want to crush their wife’s beliefs based on “souvenirs from a trip”?

]]> By: Garry Peterson https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-47 Thu, 20 Jan 2005 21:32:52 +0000 /?p=27#comment-47 The Evolution education wiki has fairly clear discussions of Darwin, his times, and various controversies over evolution.

I Darwin’s time many biologists were Christians and evolutionists. An example was Darwin’s main US supporter Asa Gray.

]]> By: Henry Balen https://rose.geog.mcgill.ca/wordpress/?p=27&cpage=1#comment-34 Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:53:49 +0000 /?p=27#comment-34 Even in Darwin’s time I suspect people would have been more sophisticated than having a literal interpretation of the bible (and there are two creation stories in Genesis…).

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