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Thank God! American audiences safe from Darwin movie

September 17th, 2009, 10:37 am by Jayson Peters

darwinfish.jpgA British film about the life of Charles Darwin and the naturalist’s “struggle between faith and reason” will be shown in theaters across the world — but not here in the U.S.

Why? Because distributors here don’t think fundamentalist Christians would approve. Read the rest of this entry »

Peruse Darwin’s manuscripts online

April 26th, 2008, 9:15 am by Jayson Peters

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Time was you had to be a scholar and visit Cambridge University to study Charles Darwin’s manuscripts.

darwinmug.jpgNow you can just click your way to them, for free: http://darwin-online.org.uk.

In addition to the naturalist’s notes and books, such as the PDF version of his On the Origin of Species, first edition, you’ll even find his wife’s recipes — perfect for when you need feed your strict creationist friends some humble pie!

The day the site went live it got more than 7 million hits and crashed.

2009 will be the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species and will mark 200 years since Darwin’s birth.

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