Darwin’s Image Appears in Tree
November 17th, 2006
The ghostly apparition of Charles Darwin has appeared (to some, at least) in a tree.
Click here to see a full sized version of the picture.
Now, perhaps I worry too much, but I hope this story isn’t picked as a soft news story up by any major channels. I think the ID brigade are keen to cast Darwin as an ideological figure, and “Darwinism” as a belief system, in order to present intelligent design as a legitimate alternative. Assigning messianic properties to a scientist obfuscates the true source of their achievements – their science.
Thanks to Stever via BoingBoing.net
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2 Comments
1. Enezio E. de Almeida Filho | July 1st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Believers see what they wanna see!
2. Late night snack: Charles&hellip | July 10th, 2008 at 5:53 am
[...] cultural icons are “appearing” again. Darwin’s face has been discovered in a tree and Turkish secularist Kemal Ataturk’s face in a hillside shadow in a remote Turkish village. [...]
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