![]() ![]() ![]() Not one hand of the 30-odd strong honours class went up. Which made it all the more telling when our professor, an eminent man from the days when zoology involved fewer genes and bleeping machines, asked how many of us had read On The Origin of Species by Means of Natural etc. ![]() There were some fine budding biologists in that lecture theatre, many of whom had a hinterland of interests, in defiance of the stereotype of scientists. Many years ago, when science was in its infancy (1986) I studied the history of the idea of evolution as part of my final year as an indifferent zoology student at Liverpool University. ![]() Hardly a snappy title.Ĭrowing about Dawkins's inability to remember the full, tongue-twisting title of a 150-year-old book says more about the shallowness of anti-science arguments than his early morning memory lapse. If you're interested, the full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. Dawkins was on the programme yesterday to talk about a survey suggesting around two thirds of Christians don't know the title of the first book of the New Testament.įraser retaliated with his own question about the full title of Origin, and when Dawkins couldn't reel it off he concluded: "If you ask people who believe in evolution that question, and you came back and said 2% got it right, it would be terribly easy for me to say they don't believe it after all." ![]()
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