On May 24, 2011 AD a new documentary titled Darwin’s Hereticwill premier along with a Q&A session with Author Michael Flannery the author of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life.
The documentary is based on the life of Alfred Russel Wallace who co-conceived of the theory of evolution along with Charles Darwin—learn more from the essay Was Alfred Russel Wallace Unnaturally Unselected?
"I fully accept Mr. Darwin's conclusion as to the essential identity of man's bodily structure with that of the higher mammalian, and his descent from some ancestral form common to man and the anthropoid apes,"* he conceded.
However, man's intellectual powers and moral sense, among other things, he said, "could not have been developed by variation and natural selection alone, and… , therefore, some other influence, law, or agency is required to account for them."**
Darwin was naturally upset by what Wallace called "my little heresy," and he wrote to Wallace in 1869 lamenting, "I hope you have not murdered too completely your own and my child."***
While this is a free event registration is required due to limited seating. In order to reserve your seat and/or order a copy of Alfred Russel Wallace: A Rediscovered Life at a 25% discount, go to:
Contact Donna at (206) 292-0401 x128
djscott @ discovery.org
This event will take place at the Mount Tahoma Auditorium, Washington State History Museum - Tacoma, Washington
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Notes:
* Darwinism, published by Macmillan, London, 1889, p. 461
** Ibid., p. 463
*** Roger Lewin, Bones of Contention (New York, NY: A Touchstone Book published by Simon & Schuster Inc., 1987), p. 310
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