Word: darwinian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fabre and his world of insects [TIME, Aug. 22], one of the most interesting facts about the work of the great entomologist is that he constantly affirmed and reaffirmed that the insect world contained the living, moving proof that the whole idea of evolution was false, and the whole Darwinian concept founded on a series of misreadings of nature...
...Outlawing Marxism is like outlawing Darwinism," he continued. However, he declared that the current attacks on the Darwinian theory by the Soviet scientists were not attacks but merely supplementary changes...
George Bernard Shaw got the kind of assignment he relishes: a special request for a quiverful of Shavian shafts. The Communist Daily Worker asked him to comment on the indictment of the twelve American Communist leaders (TIME, Aug. 2). G.B.S., who has claimed to be an atheist, an anti-Darwinian (see BOOKS), a "creative evolutionist" and a vegetarian, "refrained from comment" in 212 words. Sample: "The founder of Christianity was a Communist with eleven faithful apostles, chief of whom* struck a man and his wife dead for keeping back their money from a common pool instead of sharing...
...addition to being a playwright, music critic, economist and socialist soapboxer, Shaw has long fancied himself an amateur biologist. When Darwinian doctrine swept England like a Caribbean storm, Shaw thought it a creed "compared to which the" story of Noah was cheerful and encouraging," and-stoutly fought against Darwin's claim that there was no purposive mind behind the universe. Even those who thought he lost the battle of science should readily admit that he wins the battle of wits, hands down...
Sometimes the mills of science grind exceeding slow. Recently the U.S. Navy announced that it had corroborated a Darwinian theory 110 years...