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Charles Darwin: Books
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In their introduction to the book, the editors state: "Just as the voyage of Columbus opened up a new continent for European exploration, so the insight of Charles Darwin made science aware of an uncharted realm. Darwin showed that the living organisms of the modern world were each the end product of a long, long process of change."(4)
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About seven months before Charles Darwin died in 1882, a woman known as “Lady Hope” supposedly visited him and found him reading the Bible's Book of Hebrews. When she mentioned the subject of creation as recorded in the Book of Genesis, he became agitated, but asked her to come back to speak about Jesus Christ to a group of servants, tenants and neighbors.
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One of the most controversial books ever written, Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" has helped shape the modern world. This edition ... includes an introductory historical sketch and a glossary Darwin later added to the original text, as well as an Introduction by Walter Cronkite
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