by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Robert Chambers’ masterpiece was titled ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’. In it he explained how everything evolved. Everything from simple, less complex forms, to more complex forms over time. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Patrick Matthew published ‘On Naval Timber and Arboriculture’ in 1831. There were a few positive reviews but they were somewhat tepid in their praise. Only a couple reviewers happened to notice something else that Matthew had mentioned in his book. A...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
William Charles Wells, in no uncertain terms, pointed out that mankind is not immune to nature’s ability to modify an organism’s features over time. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others on the front page...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s mechanism for evolution was wrong, as history shows, and that fact has haunted his memory ever since. But ideas and theories have ways of being resurrected and, in recent years, there are hints out there that Lamarck wasn’t completely off...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Erasmus was a country physician. He believed that women should have access to the same education that men did, and that slavery should be abolished. He also believed that life evolved from a single filament that wiggled out of the mud in the distant past. Evolution...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
James Hutton saw the power of natural selection, but he didn’t see how it could eventually, over vast spans of time, mold an animal into something completely different. That would have to wait until Charles Darwin entered the scene over 50 years later. Evolution...
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