Today is his bicentennial anniversary and also 150 years since The Origin of Species was published he made the world a slightly less darker place and was responsible for the second major scientific revolution (First being the realization that Earth was not the center of the universe and third being Freud.
Here's to you Darwin, one of teh best scientists evar!
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
Very true except for them not being scientific revolutions.
I would add that the discovery of tectonics is up there in importance and elegance. And then, tied in with both that and evolution is the discovery of Deep Time.
Galileo took the stars away from religious authority.
Darwin took The Beginning away from religious authority.
Freud freed our minds from religious authority by showing how the unconscious works, minus the sex and Freud's stuff is very good.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
I celebrated by thinking on the difference between our culture's fetish for multiples of 10/50/100 anniversaries, and the deification and beatification of a revered individual. I decided that it was the fetish.
I celebrated by not doing the evolution study I had planned. It was not related to it being Darwin’s birthday. Is was related to the desperate attempt I have to make to salvage my degree.
In that sense it wasn’t really a celebration of it being Darwin’s birthday. It wasn’t really a celebration at all. More like a 24-hour failure.
And now I get to go to bed with that happy thought.
No, they’re mere inventions. Any random observation or trial-and-error usage can lead to the creation and refinement of an invention, whether that’s a wheel or a nozzle used in soap manufacturing. Science is a process of weeding out untruths and working out which of what remains is most likely the truth. The discovery of Deep Time was fundamental in the bringing down of Western essentialism, changing our understanding of the world from superstition to near-actuality. Whatever fire did for our dietary and landscaping ability, it wasn’t a change in our understanding of reality.
Whatever fire did for our dietary and landscaping ability, it wasn’t a change in our understanding of reality.
And the creation of fire was presumably immediately followed by the declaration that the God of Lightning shined well on their cave.
Which is not scientific inquiry at all.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
What's more important: the telescope, or the discoveries they permitted? Or the glass grinding techniques before them? Science and technology are intimately intertwined, and it is useless to trumpet the superiority of one over the other.
Happy Darwin Day!
he made the world a slightly less darker place and was responsible for the second major scientific revolution (First being the realization that Earth was not the center of the universe and third being Freud.
Here's to you Darwin, one of teh best scientists evar!
