Archive for 11th March 2009
11th March 2009 2009 was chosen for Darwin Year - the most famous representative of the evolution theory would have been 200 years old this year. The EVO magazine has dedicated to a website designed, and my colleague Ron Engert made it the cover story of the current issue of his magazine Tattva Viveka . Only two of numerous publications, event announcements and other honors - Google says in the keyword "Darwin Year" already 235 000 hits, barely a quarter of the year is over.
Especially a lot of trouble, the station 3sat with the Flash animation has "The Darwin-code" . In addition to all sorts of cultural references and of course Darwin's biography and splintering of presentation of various colleagues and competitors (was forgotten, however, the British philosopher and sociologist Herbert Spencer , whose major research findings zeitgeist in issue 2-2007 had been reported in detail), it is mainly a series of Video clips on key concepts of evolution ("Darwin-bits") that are particularly successful, for example, on mimicry, coevolution, or epigenetics also got into the fashion creationism.
It would be desirable, however, take the Darwin year, for the occasion, the dialogue on the weaknesses or fractures in the theory of evolution, which there are still crucial to revive this entry »
