Detail Feathers Fly; A Scientific Controversy   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 405 no. 8808 (Oct. 2012), page 74. Topik: Paleontology; Bacteria; University Research Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.74 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel In the mid-19th century, if you had wanted to have a scientific fight, you could have picked no better subject than palaeontology. Fossils pouring out of the mines, quarries and railway cuttings of the industrial revolution were undermining the biblical accounts of creation and early history, then believed literally true. They thus threatened Christianity. You might think things would have calmed down by now, but palaeontology clearly still has argumentative genes in its DNA, as the fate of Alison Moyer at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Palaeontology, in Raleigh, North Carolina, demonstrated. On October 19th Ms Moyer, a graduate student at North Carolina State University, proposed an idea that undermines orthodoxy as much as the 19th-century rockhounds did. The difference is that this orthodoxy is scientific. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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