For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL radio, Jacksonville, Oregon, called " Akin For the Truth". To listen to the entire spot (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack
The period between Gregor Mendal’s birth in 1822 and Darwin’s Origin of Species in 1859, 37 years later, was a scientifically eventful one. The year that, in Heinzendorf, Austria, Johann Mendel was born, Fourier defined sines and cosines, and Champollion first translated hieroglyphics. Shortly thereafter Silicon was isolated by chemist Berzelius, Botanist Robert Brown discovered "Brownian motion" and the cell nucleus, and the world's population topped 1,000,000,000. Principles of Geology by Charles Lyell was published, Henry demonstrated the electromagnetic telegraph, Faraday described the laws of "electrolysis", and the term "scientist" was coined by the philosopher William Whewell. Then Louis Braille invented a system of writing and printing for the blind, Gustave Coriolis described the "Coriolis effect", and Elements of Botany, by the naturalist Asa Gray, was published. While in Paris the Arc de Triomphe was completed and the garrison at the Alamo was defeated in 1836, a map of the moon's surface was produced by the astronomers Beer and von Madler. Edward Robinson recorded his “Biblical Researches��? when he located Megiddo, Jezreel, Anathoth, Bethel, Shiloh, among many other Biblical sites,
