Wednesday, August 08, 2012

(270) The Garden of E(a)don

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On the evening of August 8th 2012 I was disputing Darwinism with James Eadon at Facebook. Richard Milton and I had challenged him to cite any evidence that the mechanism for evolution was the natural selection of spontaneous mutations: neo-Darwinism.
Later, and whilst the dispute was still ongoing, I logged in to Twitter and the actress Susan Penhaligon Susan Penhaligon - Wikipedia asked me what I meant by the term 'anti-Darwinian', for it appeared in my notes there. I told her that I thought there to be no genuine evidence for the mechanism of natural selection of spontaneous mutations acting as the engine for an evolutionary process.
She asked - "What then? Garden of Edon?"
She rapidly acknowledged her spelling error.

But, I went on to tell her, this was a cute coincidence in that Eadon ́s website had been headed The Garden Of Eadon and that there he had reviews of and examples from my book Coincidences.
Cartoons of the garden ́s serpent persisted at his website.