Thu. 10/08 – 1000 Years Before Darwin, Islamic Scholars Wrote About Evolution
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
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🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:28.7 | welcome to the cotkey ride home for Thursday, October 8th, 2020. |
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| 0:42.7 | The Islamic scholars who beat Darwin to the Punch by about a thousand years. |
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| 1:05.8 | Beginning today with yet another entry into the sorry white people you weren't the first to do that category. |
| 1:14.3 | Islamic scholars were writing about natural selection about a thousand years before Charles Darwin. |
| 1:22.2 | Now this also might be a white person problem that I don't know this, but you know, most of our |
| 1:26.6 | schools here in the U.S. even at the university level, only teach us about Darwin. With maybe a passing mention |
| 1:33.1 | of Alfred Russell Wallace, the naturalist who had some of the same ideas independently from |
| 1:37.8 | Darwin around the same time, they would ultimately publish together, but the original thoughts |
| 1:42.3 | did happen separately. But of course, Wallace and |
| 1:45.4 | Darwin will only get mentioned if the school even teaches evolution, which I'm happy to report my |
| 1:51.9 | Texas high school actually did, even if it was accompanied by my teacher reading a copy of the |
| 1:57.5 | court document requiring her by state law to teach it before she started the |
| 2:01.3 | lecture, and if several students did start arguing with her about how the Bible disagrees |
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