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[2010]
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English
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Bee City USA, Pollinators & Wildflowers - Children
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
Plant Wildflowers Campaign: Fiction for Kids ages 0 - 8
Storytime @ Home: Spotlight on Mother Nature & Planet Earth
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Some of Charles Darwin's children help him study bumblebees at their home.
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Charlie Thorne volume 2
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English
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"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
15) Creation
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Gives viewers a unique inside look at Charles Darwin, his family, and his love for his deeply religious wife, as he is torn between faith and science. Darwin struggles to finish his legendary book, On the Origin of Species, which goes on to become the foundation for evolutionary biology.
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English
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Today, the theory of evolution by natural selection and the science of genetics are the twin keys to our understanding of how life on earth came about. Yet when an English naturalist called Charles Darwin first published his ideas in 1859 in a book called On the Origin of Species, the world was horrified at the notion of a changing creation without the intervention a Creator. By contrast, when a few years later an obscure Moravian monk, Gregor Mendel,...
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English
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Follows the battle to reconcile scientific fact with religious faith with regard to Darwin's theory of evolution, from the supporting theories of fellow scientists, to the opposing voices of clergymen, to twenty-first-century supporters of Intelligent Design. Through quotations from letters and other contemporary sources, readers will meet the personalities and ideas involved in the debate. They will also examine some of the legal cases that brought...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In 1860, Charles Darwin's just-published On the Origin of Species was eagerly read and discussed by five extraordinary American intellectuals. The book first came into the hands of Harvard botanist Asa Gray, who soon led the fight for the theory in America. Gray passed his copy to the child welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace, who then introduced the book at a dinner party in Concord, Massachusetts, to three other friends: the abolitionist Franklin...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
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