On Tue, 19 Mar 1996 18:11:28 -0700 (MST) Denis Lamoureux wrote:
[...]
SJ>"Darwin dismissed the entire controversy as pointless and
>premature: `It will be some time before we see slime, protoplasm,
>etc., generating a new animal. But I have long regretted that I
>truckled to public opinion, and used the Pentateuchal term of
>creation, by which I really meant "appeared" by some wholly unknown
>process. It is mere rubbish, thinking at present of the origin of
>life; one might as well think of the origin of matter.' " (Wilson
>E.O., et al., "Life on Earth", Sinauer Associates: Sunderland,
>Mass., 1973, p594)
DL>You will find this quote in "Life and Letters of Charles Darwin"
>(1887) Vol III: 17. It is a letter to the very anti-religious JD
>Hooker (29 March >1863)....
Thanks to Denis for the reference, which was omitted by Wilson. I will
cite it in future as follows:
"Darwin C., letter to J. D. Hooker, 29 March 1863, in Darwin F. (ed),
"Life and Letters of Charles Darwin", Vol III, p17, John Murray,
London, 1887".
For the benefit of newcomers, the rest of Denis' "primary source" and
"gobs", "recycling", etc. post is ignored as he has said all this
before and we must agree to differ! :-)
Regards.
Steve
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