Thanks, Bertie
Bertrand Russell, though dead, has generously agreed to contribute trenchant observations to The Horse on matters of mutual interest. For example, the celebrated “Cambrian Explosion” of new animal phyla, as seemed to be suggested by fossil discoveries in the Burgess Shales in Canada. Overexcited paleontologists (and drooling creationists) were characterized by Russell as imagining
“. . . animals without antecedents, as if they had suddenly materialized overnight from nothing, complete with holes in their socks.”
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That’s two Bertrand Russell quotes in one month. We may have to add him to the Editorial Board. My favorite of his is, “What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
Comment by Mark — May 26, 2009 @ 10:07 am