I was trolling Slashdot and found this interesting article about a fellow from the Royal Society (the Director of Education to be specific) resigning. More interesting than that is news that the Anglican Church (C of E) is reading to apologize to Darwin - "The Church of England will concede in a statement that it was over-defensive and over-emotional in dismissing Darwin's ideas. It will call 'anti-evolutionary fervor' an 'indictment' on the Church."
Interesting "evolution" of a theory and the issues that surround it (even 150 years later!)
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And, REALLY interesting are the comments that are on that slashdot article - they make a great example of what Kuhn describes in his first couple of chapters about the current state of "scientific" discourse being about the COMPETITION of theories rather than real discourse.
That is the beauty of places like Slashdot.
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