Creator/Photographer: Ernest Edwards, London. (Photographic company)
Medium: Medium unknown
Date: prior to 1882
Collection: Scientific Identity: Portraits from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology - As a supplement to the Dibner Library for the History of Science and Technology's collection of written works by scientists, engineers, natural philosophers, and inventors, the library also has a collection of thousands of portraits of these individuals. The portraits come in a variety of formats: drawings, woodcuts, engravings, paintings, and photographs, all collected by donor Bern Dibner. Presented here are a few photos from the collection, from the late 19th and early 20th century.
Repository: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Accession number: SIL14-D1-09
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dissenting 42 months ago | reply
Climategate!!!
cudau.botcanh 35 months ago | reply
Nice pic!!!!!!!!!
thecaveofthedead 35 months ago | reply
@dissenting - Sweeping generalisation? Not at all. You used the "it's only a theory," and "believe in nothing" creationist nonsense. Therefore you are a creationist and scientific illiterate (although the two are synonymous). There's no getting around that. It's like if you said 1+1 =7 and I called you innumerate.
It's not a generalisation, it's a fact that you've demonstrated in plain view.
It's simply astonishing that such baseless, clueless, hogwash has managed to confuse half the world about evolution.
WeiSiGuo2011 28 months ago | reply
@ dissenting - I see what you did there. Your whole argument against evolution rests on the "it's just a theory" concept. @ thecaveofthedead tells you that you are using the word theory in it's everday sense, not it's scientific meaning.
Ed Pearlstein explains this well, "A theory is built upon one or more hypotheses, and upon evidence. The word "built" is essential, for a theory contains reasoning and logical connections based on the hypotheses and evidence. Thus we have Newton's theory of gravity and the motion of planets, Einstein's theory of relativity, the germ theory of disease, the cell theory of organisms, plate tectonics (theory of the motion of land masses), the valence theory of chemical compounds, and theories of evolution in biology, geology, and astronomy. These theories are self-consistent and consistent with one another."
Thus scientists use the word theory to mean something very close to fact. Evolution is supported by massive amounts of supporting evidence - can you say this of your religion?