John Wilkins has a nice post up regarding the deification and demonization of Darwin. With regards the latter, he particularly discusses something I have intended to blog since I heard about it through a Wall Street Journal article - Roy Davies' book, The Darwin Conspiracy, which repeats the historically inaccurate (and unfortunately perennial) claim that Darwin plagiarized Wallace. Davies is a retired TV producer. Wilkins is an historical philosopher. Jim Lennox - who has replied to Davies' claim - is a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science. I'm not saying that Davies has to be wrong regarding Darwin, but he is definitely wrong here.
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Well, it's something. After her crazy tirade against atheists, now Monique Davis has apologized.
Wallace and Darwin?
Is an historical philosopher someone who should be dead and buried?
Dead *or* buried.
I don't see a link to the Wilkins article!
@ Ian
D'oh! My bad. Fixed.