Tennyson worried about money, feared mental illness
Loss of his friend spurred his best poetry
Tennyson was extremely shortsighted – couldn’t eat without glasses
He composed poetry in his head
In Memoriam:
“What am I? An infant crying in the night/ An infant crying for the light/ and with no language but a cry” p. 54
“are god and nature then at strife?” p. 54
“a thousand types are gone; I care for nothing, all shall go” p. 54
“Oh Earth, what changes hast though seen. There where the long street roars, hath been the stillness of the central sea.” p. 55
The Modern Debate:
“intelligent design postulates that the universe is too complex to have been created by chance mutations and evolution”
“driven by nothing but instinct to survive” p. 61
“its beneath them to consider the possibility that something outside the natural realm was at work”
intelligent design is a “huge admission of defeat” p. 61
“creationists ‘arent threatening us, they’re becoming us’” p. 61
John Studebaker
Apostle paul appealed to nature as evidence for the existence of god p62
“a complex code such as that found in the DNA molecule could only come through intelligence.” P63
All of the specific characteristics of the earth and universe that if changed would drastically change humans are just the specific random things that made of the way we are. Since we evolved with all that changing stuff of course if it was different we would be different. I see this as a point for evolution, not falwell.
“you may want to ask god about this—and then be ready for his answer.” P. 65
dead silence.
A guy against evolution: “the author points to his lack of scientific training as a boon” p 68
“there is only one school of scientific thought, and that is evolution occurred and is still occurring. When it comes to matters of religion and philosophy, they can be discussed objectively in public schools, but not in biology class” p. 73
“scientific truth is determined by peer review, not public opinion” p. 75
“Tom Delay blamed evolution for the columbine school shootings” p. 75