Hi there,
In response to people tweeting the bible, I've started tweeting the Origins of Species. I would appreciate it if you could follow my project and spread the word around. I'm still pretty much at the very beginning and this will be a long term project.
The link is http://twitter.com/OriginsTweeted
Thanks!
Quote from: "Parsifal"Hi there,
In response to people tweeting the bible, I've started tweeting the Origins of Species. I would appreciate it if you could follow my project and spread the word around. I'm still pretty much at the very beginning and this will be a long term project.
The link is http://twitter.com/OriginsTweeted (http://twitter.com/OriginsTweeted)
Thanks!
Basically a reasonable idea, but why are you tweeting the Origin of Species? There are now far better books about evolution and OoS is rather outdated and the language is a little impenetrable for a science n00b.
While it's a bit late now I would also like to point out we do have a rule here about linking in your first post.
Welcome aboard.
Regards
Chris
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Thanks Chris,
Didn't know about the rule, where do I find it?
I agree about what you said about OoS, however, there is a lot in it that still surprise me that Darwin could have known in the 1850's. We often tend to think that everything we know is recent (as in the last few decades). There is also a lot of ignorance about OoS among religious people (who clearly show that they've never read).
Quote from: "Parsifal"Thanks Chris,
Didn't know about the rule, where do I find it?
In the forum rules link in my post above :D
Hello
Does Parsifal refer to the Opera?
There was a guy on the radio who tried to raise my awareness of opera.
Unfortunately he died after doing the job for 42 years, before I was totally converted.
Not as long a career as Alistair Cooke, he went for 58 years trying to explain America to the rest of us.
Just a couple more years and I might have understood the primary process.
Quote from: "The Magic Pudding"Hello
Does Parsifal refer to the Opera?
There was a guy on the radio who tried to raise my awareness of opera.
Unfortunately he died after doing the job for 42 years, before I was totally converted.
Not as long a career as Alistair Cooke, he went for 58 years trying to explain America to the rest of us.
Just a couple more years and I might have understood the primary process.
Yes, I'm a big opera fan. I've deliberately chosen Parsifal for this forum because of the religious undertones in the opera (or sacred musical stage play, as Wagner called it). It is usually performed over Easter. The only female character, Kundry, reportedly laughed at Christ on the cross, and was cursed to walk the earth until she was redeemed, which happens about 400 years later when Parsifal redeems her. The story is truly bizarre, although it has its meanings, but the music is divine. Many operas require a kind of religious approach, namely the suspension of disbelief (especially the music of Wagner), however, the rewards for doing that at opera are normally immediate and tangible.
Hi Tank, just returning to why I'm tweeting Origins, is because the book is out of copyright. The later books will need the consent of the author or the holder of the copyright to be tweeted.
Quote from: "Parsifal"Hi Tank, just returning to why I'm tweeting Origins, is because the book is out of copyright. The later books will need the consent of the author or the holder of the copyright to be tweeted.
Ah! That's why the bastardised copy produced by Ray Comfort with the 50 page creationist introduction could be produced.
Why not contact Jerry Coyne (http://jerrycoyne.uchicago.edu/about.html) author of 'Why Evolution is True' (http://jerrycoyne.uchicago.edu/index.html) and see if he minds, then you could tweet both? Coyne's book is the best of a recent bunch of theistically accessible books on Evolution, I'm sure you'll have read it and if not I would highly recommend it to you.