[Off topic:] Darwin’s tortoise dies

Here is a recent article which casts doubt on Harriet having been Darwin's: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/06/24/dl2403.xml Daily Telegraph The origin of myth (Filed: 24/06/2006) Harriet the tortoise, who has died aged 176, was thought to have belonged to Charles Darwin, and may have been the world's oldest animal. She was around not only when Queen Victoria died, but when she was crowned. The Industrial Revolution, electricity, men on the Moon, England winning the World Cup - all the high points of the past two centuries took place in her lifetime. One great change has been the wide acceptance of Darwin's theories, which now underpins work by biologists, sociologists, historians and psychologists. Some, like Richard Dawkins, see The Origin of Species as a kind of replacement Bible; others think that Darwin helped illuminate aspects of God's creation. But his work, and the science that followed, still brings new surprises. DNA tests now suggest that Harriet came from an island Darwin never visited. However, much as I like debunking Darwinian myths, if "Harriet came from a [Galapagos]island Darwin never visited," that would not rule her out as having been collected by Darwin. She could have swum to an island that Darwin visited, or someone could have collected her from an island Darwin did not visit and given it to him. Stephen E. Jones http://creationevolutiondesign.blogspot.com/ senojes

Is this an omen for an idea of a similar age that protects itself with a very thick shell? idnet.com.au