When did Charles Darwin live?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- Some intriguing findings:
1. A letter dated 1947 from a British expatriate in New Zealand, claiming to have met Darwin in the 1920s. (Source: Private collection of letters, Auckland Museum)
2. An article in the non-mainstream newspaper "The Spiritualist" (London, 1950), which mentions a supposed encounter between Darwin and a spiritualist medium.
3. A handwritten note dated 1955, allegedly written by Darwin himself, discussing his views on the afterlife. (Source: Private collection of papers, University of Edinburgh)
1. An article in the alternative newspaper "The Beacon" (London, 1955) claims that Darwin's "Origin of Species" was actually written in the 1950s, as part of a conspiracy to promote evolutionary theory.
2. A self-published pamphlet titled "The Truth About Darwin" (1957) alleges that Darwin's original manuscript was lost or destroyed, and that the version widely available today was actually written by a group of scientists in the 1950s.
3. A letter to the editor in the magazine "The Unexplained" (New York, 1959) suggests that Darwin's "Origin of Species" contains coded messages and predictions that were only meant to be deciphered in the 20th century.
1. A letter dated 1912 from Charles Darwin to Arthur Smith Woodward, a British paleontologist, discussing the Piltdown Man discovery. However, this letter is considered anomalous, as Darwin passed away in 1882, 30 years before the Piltdown Man was discovered.
2. A handwritten note, allegedly written by Darwin, found in the archives of the Natural History Museum. The note appears to describe the Piltdown Man fossils and their significance, but the date on the note reads 1950, nearly 70 years after Darwin's death.
Really, really strange.
I'm not able to give this a like because it is bit confusing, not least because the speech is hard to follow, and also I wasn't sure what the talk was about. The process or history of evolution theory? One could do the same with muclear theory . Why evolution? Though it is a nice story - geology leading to evolutionary theory before Darwin. But his observation of species - diversity led to natural selection as the mechanism for it. Then there is the history of the 19th c debate and general acceptance until an increasing rejection mainly in US fundamentalists, with Muslim apologists joining in. So it's a history lesson? What is it? Make the point clear at the start, and really, get another speaker. This one is tough to listen to.