tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post6715305229671690318..comments2024-03-26T11:33:59.219-06:00Comments on Religion in American History: Evolution and WonderPaul Harveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-84921544256682889282009-02-16T08:59:00.000-07:002009-02-16T08:59:00.000-07:00Anyone have any comments on Darwin's racism?John L...Anyone have any comments on Darwin's racism?<BR/><BR/>John Lofton, Editor<BR/>TheAmericanView.com<BR/>Recovering Republican<BR/>JLof@aol.com<BR/><BR/>PS -- And how could any person watch Congress on CSPAN and believe that fittest have survived?John Lofton, Recovering Republicanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15687524008871521220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-84668855152879216532009-02-11T17:47:00.000-07:002009-02-11T17:47:00.000-07:00Thanks for the great post, Paul. I'd also suggest...Thanks for the great post, Paul. I'd also suggest a 4-part program on Darwin on the BBC Radio 4 show called "In Our Time." It's a rather British take on the man. But Darwin was British, after all.<BR/><BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_darwin.shtml<BR/><BR/>Check out the archives of "In Our Time." There are some great topics, many of them related to religion and American history.<BR/><BR/>http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/Mike Pasquierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00910360700893031424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-8228015123505852282009-02-11T16:36:00.000-07:002009-02-11T16:36:00.000-07:00Randall: Actually passages from it go over great -...Randall: Actually passages from it go over great -- I've used them before, and students consistently remark on how they didn't realize the original was so "interesting," and many of them see it bears no resemblance to the caricature that some of them come in with.Paul Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13881964303772343114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-34276825213941144672009-02-11T16:06:00.000-07:002009-02-11T16:06:00.000-07:00Great post, Paul. I had not seen that Speaking of...Great post, Paul. I had not seen that Speaking of Faith spot. NPR has also been running a series of stories on Darwin at 200 that have been very interesting. <BR/><BR/>On the books, I'd also suggest Jon Roberts' now-classic study, Darwinism and the Divine in America: Protestant Intellectuals and Organic Evolution, <BR/>1859-1900 (University of Wisconsin Press, 1988) and Giberson and Donald Yerxa, Species of Origins: America's Search for a Creation Story (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).<BR/><BR/>I hadn't read Origin until relatively recently. Hard to believe there were only 1,200 or so original copies printed up. I wonder how a passage from it would go over in a Am Rel History course?Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37589721331585843.post-60167523051180300552009-02-11T12:15:00.000-07:002009-02-11T12:15:00.000-07:00Paul,Amen. I had to read it for Paul Conkin's Ame...Paul,<BR/><BR/>Amen. I had to read it for Paul Conkin's American Intellectual History course as an undergraduate and I was shocked at how beautiful it was. Hear hear to your conclusion!<BR/><BR/>Incidentally, my wife, who was raised in an evangelical environment, used to remind me that, in her culture, the idea still holds strong that Darwin, on his deathbed, reneged all his big ideas in favor of Genesis.Kevin M. Schultzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10983890538804950630noreply@blogger.com