tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post2818499652803836681..comments2024-03-27T14:50:47.345-04:00Comments on <center>Sandwalk</center>: Happy Birthday Charles DarwinLarry Moranhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-10546973004730786642013-01-01T10:21:22.246-05:002013-01-01T10:21:22.246-05:00Suspect it was John Lubbock, not "John Lunnoc...Suspect it was John Lubbock, not "John Lunnock". Please see:<br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lubbock,_1st_Baron_AveburyDonald Forsdykehttp://post.queensu.ca/~forsdyke/homepage.htmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-8602504596691342712012-02-13T13:20:59.404-05:002012-02-13T13:20:59.404-05:00Veronica, thanks for referring to my comment in Wh...Veronica, thanks for referring to my comment in Why Evolution is True. I was thinking more about this last night. Imagine, Einstein sitting in his office in Bern figured out that matter equals energy by pure thought, without doing a single experiment! And the formula he deduced (again, by pure thought, no experiments) is accurate to as many decimal places as we can measure today. And this thing he figured out in his office is true (EXACTLY true!!!) all over the universe. This explains how the sun and the stars work, and lots of other things, and Einstein got there just by very abstract, mind-bogglingly counter-intuitive thought! <br /> I also agree with SLC that Maxwell deserves a very high place in any scientific pantheon.Lou Josthttp://www.loujost.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-52581336545428754352012-02-12T17:27:20.569-05:002012-02-12T17:27:20.569-05:00Just because William Thompson was given a life pee...Just because William Thompson was given a life peerage and took the name Lord Kelvin doesn't make him more prominent then Maxwell. Generally, Maxwell is considered by historians of science to be the most prominent physicist of the 19th century, ahead of Lord Kelvin and Michael Faraday. Pierre Simon de LaPlace, the man who had no need of the god hypothesis to prove the stability of the Solar System, is considered the most prominent scientist of the 18 century.SLCnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-41532813372015079282012-02-12T12:42:35.279-05:002012-02-12T12:42:35.279-05:00"Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever l..."Darwin was the greatest scientist who ever lived."<br /><br />I am submitting this comment from Why Evolution Is True to add to the controversy:<br /><br />http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/happy-darwin-day/#comment-183533Veronica Abbasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07037599323472646996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-67157339659637822462012-02-12T10:49:26.644-05:002012-02-12T10:49:26.644-05:00Happy Darwin Day!Happy Darwin Day!Richard Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16115218690707131186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-21683331723559997792012-02-12T10:37:23.616-05:002012-02-12T10:37:23.616-05:00Thanks for the edification but I already knew that...Thanks for the edification but I already knew that James Clerk Maxwell wasn't in the running for the greatest scientist who ever lived. <br /><br />I didn't realize that Maxwell (1831-1879) was more prominent than Kelvin (1824-1907) in the last part of the nineteenth century.Larry Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05756598746605455848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-52947418886317488822012-02-12T10:36:21.439-05:002012-02-12T10:36:21.439-05:00No Google Doodle for Darwin today. I was looking ...No Google Doodle for Darwin today. I was looking forward to Google commemorating this important day especially because Dicken's 200th birthday merited a Google Doodle on February 7.Veronica Abbasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07037599323472646996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37148773.post-42483356584187016322012-02-12T10:11:17.075-05:002012-02-12T10:11:17.075-05:00Just for the edification of Prof. Moran, I will po...Just for the edification of Prof. Moran, I will point out that Great Britain's most prominent physicist at the time, James Clerk Maxwell, was also a disbeliever in Darwin's Theory of Evolution, based on his devout Christian beliefs. As the late Christopher Hitchens famously remarked, religion poisons everything.SLCnoreply@blogger.com