…three out of ten primary and secondary science teachers believe in teaching creationism in science classes, it was recently reported. To which I say, perhaps three out of ten science teachers should not be teaching science.
Because is this not most disturbing? That on the eve of Darwin’s Bicentenary, there are still so many out there [...]
Archive > December 2008
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John Donne needed Darwin
I’ve been reading John Stubbs very good biography of the poet John Donne and I’ve been struck by how much Donne suffered by not having a Charles Darwin close at hand to help guide him through his religious quandaries. How such an original thinker like Donne, a man so intelligent and rational could be plagued [...]
The Paraphernalia of Poetry
This blog is one dedicated to Charles Darwin, but also to that nebulous something I like to call evolution of influence, that is, the way thinkers evolve other thinkers’ thoughts, a kind of scientific, or in this case, literary descent. I lived for a long time in Wentworth Falls, in the Blue Mountains of Australia [...]
Coleridge on Poetry and Science, plus a second Darwin poem
Blogs are not the best places to post poetry–due to a very annoying lack of control over spacing and therefore aesthetics– I’m discovering, but then again, I’m practically technically illiterate. Hence the old Underwood Portable typewriter I still use to write my poetry–at least the first draft. Many of the Darwin poems began life this [...]