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The Map that Changed the World [in 1815]
University at Buffalo ^ | 04 October 2005 | Staff

Posted on 10/07/2005 3:59:37 AM PDT by PatrickHenry

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To: PatrickHenry
"There is no geologic column at all." </Creo_mode>

So by 1815 maps like that were being produced. Can't blame it all on Darwin. Have to blame it on ... the Earth.

21 posted on 10/07/2005 8:00:04 AM PDT by VadeRetro (Come back, Shane!)
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So by 1815 maps like that were being produced. Can't blame it all on Darwin. Have to blame it on ... the Earth.

It is interesting to put Darwin in the context of what was going on in other sciences. The YEC viewpoint was already in trouble.

22 posted on 10/07/2005 8:22:57 AM PDT by PatrickHenry ( I won't respond to a troll, crackpot, half-wit, or incurable ignoramus.)
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Very nice. Have you seen the Natural Earth Gallery
23 posted on 10/07/2005 9:40:18 AM PDT by Anthem (Never mind the love, where's the muscle!)
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Your link doesn't work.


24 posted on 10/07/2005 10:05:26 AM PDT by PatrickHenry ( I won't respond to a troll, crackpot, half-wit, or incurable ignoramus.)
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Hmmm...I found that book to be extremely repetitive...like he took a two-chapter story and expanded it by running through the same anecdote again and again.

I have to disagree. I found the whole history behind the creation of the OED to be fascinating, and Minor's story to be very interesing as well.

Also didn't help when I found out he'd made part of it up.

So what part did he make up?

25 posted on 10/07/2005 2:39:55 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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Apologies for my haste. Let's try that again. Natural Earth Gallery
26 posted on 10/07/2005 5:50:07 PM PDT by Anthem (Never mind the love, where's the muscle!)
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Good site.


27 posted on 10/07/2005 6:03:38 PM PDT by PatrickHenry ( I won't respond to a troll, crackpot, half-wit, or incurable ignoramus.)
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So what part did he make up?

Some of his hypothesizing about what led to the autopoe

But the part that really gets me is what Winchester has admitted is 'amusing and romantic' fiction, the story of the first meeting of Drs. Murray and Minor, a tale that was first told by Hayden Church. However, in places like PBS, Winchester has implied that it was true--blurring the line between fact and fiction for his marketing purposes. His credibility is shot for me, since we can't trust anything he presents to have truly been the way he presents it.

28 posted on 10/07/2005 6:13:19 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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grr..."autopeotomy", that was. Though perhaps cutting the word off as I hit "post" and tried to correct the misspelling was rather appropriate. :-)


29 posted on 10/07/2005 6:14:56 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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