[tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor

2009-10-06 Thread Allen Esterson
���On 5 October 2009 Mike Palij provided a link to the forthcoming TV programme Darwin's Darkest Hour, the blurb for which includes the following: Charles Darwin’s greatest personal crisis: the anguishing decision over whether to go publicwith his theory of evolution. Darwin, portrayed by

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2009-10-06 Thread Christopher D. Green
Allen Esterson wrote: Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years? http://tinyurl.com/cobvtn It is by John van Whye, historian of science at=2 0Cambridge University, and Director of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online.

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2009-10-06 Thread Mike Palij
I'm not a Darwin scholar and looking at the materials that Allen has linked to, it seems to me that there will be no definitive answer to why Darwin waited so long to publish On the Origin of the Species unless some new material comes to light. I assume that there were multiple factors in causing

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2009-10-06 Thread Rick Froman
-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman From: Christopher D. Green [mailto:chri...@yorku.ca] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:14 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor Allen Esterson wrote: Mind the gap: Did Darwin avoid

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2009-10-06 Thread Allen Esterson
���Re the publishing of Origin of Species*, Chris Green wrote: The urgency of the barnacle book can't really be made to bear quite so much weight, IMHO. The issue, it seems to me, was not so much whether he was afraid of religious authorities but, rather, that he knew the theory would be extremely

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2009-10-06 Thread Allen Esterson
Correction! I slipped up on dates in my last posting, where I wrote of Darwin returning from the Beagle voyage in late 1837, and the identification of the Galapagos mocking birds as different species by Gould in March 1838. I should have written: ...there was of course no way that Darwin

[tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor

2009-10-05 Thread Mike Palij
Previously some Tipsters have pointed out that the Darwin biopic Creation had not gotten a distributor to release the film in the U.S. I may have missed updates on this in the recent excitement on TiPS, but, just to make sure, have no fears: Creation will be distributed in the U.S. One source

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2009-10-05 Thread michael sylvester
- Original Message - From: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) tips@acsun.frostburg.edu Cc: Mike Palij m...@nyu.edu Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 9:52 PM Subject: [tips] Darwin Movie Creation Finds a U.S. Distributor I think that Creationis