by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Diderot devoured the written word. It was food for his mind and he couldn’t get enough of it. He was ravenous when it came to ideas. Especially when those ideas took him into places that others feared to tread. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Benoit de Maillet believed that life, all life, came from the sea. And not only did it come from the sea, but it continued to evolve into different species as it encountered different environments. To present these ideas would be dangerous to him so he wrote it as a...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
In the first century BC the Roman poet Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things. A poem with 7400 lines of verse that covered everything from the tiniest particles of matter and how they move, as well as the nature of time and space, consciousness, mortality, and the...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Aristotle actually came close to explaining natural selection, 2200 years before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace did. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others on the front page of EvolutionTalk.com, or call...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
Charles Darwin questioned everything when it came to the origin of species and the evolution of life here on earth. That questioning led him into some pretty dark places. As he grew more and more certain that nature was fully capable of producing the abundance of life...
by Rick Coste | Sep 6, 2019 | Podcast
As a young man, the more Charles Darwin learned about nature the more he began to question things. If species were immutable, meaning they never changed, then how was it that breeders were able to change the forms of dogs or pigeons? What if something similar occurred...
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