Over at Evolution News & Views, John West notes Darwin Day’s forgotten figure. No, not Alfred Russel Wallace, but U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, born the same day in 1809.
In sociologist Steve Fuller’s imagination, they do meet (a snatch of transcript).
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Thankfully, they were born in the same year. If Darwin had been around much before Abe, poor Abe would have been a nobody, since he won the presidency with his mantra “All men are created equal”. The compassionate Democrats and Whigs would not have formed the Republican party. The only ones voting for him would have be the Abolutionist fundies.
OT: There was an article up on Physorg, the day before yesterday, which sought to overturn the radiocarbon dating done in 1988 which supposedly showed a young medieval date for the Shroud (i.e. the Davinci hypothesis 🙂 ). The new hypothesis involves an ‘earthquake’. I found it to be strange that they would publish this highly speculative hypothesis since the 1988 carbon dating has now been known to be wrong for several years:
Here’s the paper:
Here are a few notes overturning the 1988 carbon dating:
Rogers passed away shortly after publishing this paper, but his work was ultimately verified by work done at (not by) the Los Alamos National Laboratory:
Using a non-destructive dating technique, the date for the Shroud was narrowed to 300 BC and 400AD
Also of note:
etc.. etc..
Verse and Music:
Actually Abe was told and pictured as a ape. Possibly in reference to evolution.
Abe was smart and would see Darwins idea as unsupported and unlikely.
Darwin wouldn’t have clue why Abe was a leading thinker in American politics.
Darwin was simplistic from what i read about his stuff.
BA77, you might want to include this tidbit in your posts on the shroud of turin. Doctor August Accetta was a believer until in his late twenties he came to believe that religion was acrutch used by the elderly to help them feel better about physical death. He became an agnostic.
Years later he was lead by curiousity to the shroud of turin and decided to do some experiments of his own in trying to replicate the shroud. Accetta actually came closest to replicating the shroud and actually replicated many of its unique features by injecting himself with radioactive particles and passing (get this) gamma rays through his body. He came the closest so far but couldn’t replicate all of its features and fell short of replicating a face.
But through his research the shroud helped to inch him closer to faith and his reading of scripture brought him all the way back..
Here is some of his work along with Physicist John Jackson and Kenneth Lyons MD. references from mostly peer reviewed papers are provided at the bottom. This is actually a very underfollowed research area that many have forgotten about. I don’t know if I would have been brave enough to take the chances with my health that Doctor Accetta took but im sure glad he did now.
http://www.shroud.com/pdfs/accett2.pdf
NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND ITS RELEVANCE
TO THE SHROUD OF TURIN
Hypothesis: If indeed a corpse created the image we see on the Shroud, then the source for the
energy received by the cloth may be from the molecular bond energy and/or nuclear forces within
the body in some way interacting with the cloth. The closest practical tool we have to study this
today is nuclear medicine.
this is a 7 page paper. very fascinating stuff
Wallstreeter, ,,, ‘injecting yourself with radioactive dyes and passing gamma rays through your body is what you call being dedicated to science! 🙂