Archive for March 11th, 2009
March 11, 2009
2009 was chosen as the Year of Darwin - the most well-known representative of the theory of evolution would this year become 200 years old. The EVO magazine has specially to a website designed, and my colleague Ron Engert made it the cover story of the latest issue of his magazine Tattva Viveka . Only two of countless publications, meeting announcements and other tributes - Google reports on the keyword search "Darwin Year" already hit 235,000, barely a quarter of the year is over.
Made the extra mile, the broadcaster has 3Sat with the flash animation "The Darwin-code" . In addition to all sorts of cultural references and of course tear-out from Darwin Biography and discussion of diverse colleagues and competitors (forgotten however was the British philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer , zeitgeist on its significant research findings in Issue 2-2007 had reported in detail), it is mainly a series of Video clips on key concepts of evolution ("Darwin-bits"), which are particularly successful, z. B. on mimicry, coevolution, or epigenetics also got into the fashion creationism.
It would be desirable, however, to take the Darwin year as an opportunity to reinvigorate the dialogue about the weaknesses or fractures in the theory of evolution, which it indeed still is crucial Read this story »
