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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2575840" data-attributes="member: 246624">...Louis Agassiz, the most famous scientist of his time, eclipsing Darwin in his stature and influence (up to a point) addressed this diversity across the landscape in one way. Darwin addressed it in another way. Today, most people don&#039;t even know what Agassiz said, even though it is a perfectly rational model if you are a creationist, and something like half of all Americans are. But, his ideas would be considered absurd even by modern Young Earth Creationists (YECs). Darwin&#039;s view, in contrast, is not absurd, but it is complicated....&nbsp; <a href="http://birdingblogs.com/2011/gregladen/darwinian-thinking-bird" target="_blank">Read more</a>&nbsp;<a href="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/darwinian_thinking_from_the_bi.php#commentsArea" target="_blank">Read the comments on this post...</a><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/E9PjM28Df4g" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2575840, member: 246624"] [INDENT]...Louis Agassiz, the most famous scientist of his time, eclipsing Darwin in his stature and influence (up to a point) addressed this diversity across the landscape in one way. Darwin addressed it in another way. Today, most people don't even know what Agassiz said, even though it is a perfectly rational model if you are a creationist, and something like half of all Americans are. But, his ideas would be considered absurd even by modern Young Earth Creationists (YECs). Darwin's view, in contrast, is not absurd, but it is complicated....[/INDENT] [URL="http://birdingblogs.com/2011/gregladen/darwinian-thinking-bird"]Read more[/URL] [URL="http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/07/darwinian_thinking_from_the_bi.php#commentsArea"]Read the comments on this post...[/URL][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GregLadensBlog/~4/E9PjM28Df4g[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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