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Which books will you burn today? And why?

 
 
Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 09:02 am
On the Origin of Species

On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. For the sixth edition of 1872, the short title was changed to The Origin of Species. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to other animals. The political and theological implications were intensely debated, but transmutation was not accepted by the scientific mainstream.
The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication. As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T. H. Huxley and his fellow members of the X Club to secularise science by promoting scientific naturalism. Within two decades there was widespread scientific agreement that evolution, with a branching pattern of common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the significance that Darwin thought appropriate. During the "eclipse of Darwinism" from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit. With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, and it has now become the unifying concept of the life sciences.
source: Wikipedia

Clearly this book flies in the face of the agnostic position of, who knows what the nose knows? Speak, beak. It also blasphemes the creator's image and good name. I therefore nominate it to be the first book we will burn.
 
Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 09:15 am
Right after we burn the bible.
maxdancona
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 09:36 am
@Setanta,
Really Setanta? You think the Bible is on the same level of importance as On the Origin of Species, the book at the foundation of our understanding of life?
Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 09:41 am
@maxdancona,
Trying to pick a fight, Max? Good luck with that. If you have some spare time today, look around and see if you can pick up a sense of humor somewhere.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 09:45 am
@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:

Really Setanta? You think the Bible is on the same level of importance as On the Origin of Species, the book at the foundation of our understanding of life?

I had intended to start a fun thread, that also gave a brief look at interesting books, rather than starting arguments.
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izzythepush
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 09:47 am
I wouldn't have any problems if anyone burnt this book.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_T-hKtEcJH88/SrKM_Wt1xkI/AAAAAAAAADQ/GV2PEirJAwU/s320/katie+price.jpg
maxdancona
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 09:50 am
@Setanta,
Geez people!

I was just joking... having a little fun.
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chai2
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 10:25 am
Please, someone burn this one, and all its sequels, and all the attending movies.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1d/Twilightbook.jpg
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Setanta
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 10:32 am
Everything by Dan Brown.
chai2
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 10:36 am
@Setanta,
oooo.....good one set.
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tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 10:37 am
@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:

I wouldn't have any problems if anyone burnt this book.

Then the alleged book, Kardashian Konfidential, can be a target as well. Any celebrity autobiography written in fact by a ghost writer instead of its subject is up for a good book burning party.
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George
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 11:10 am
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FT5JDVBCL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

BURN, BABY, BURN!
tsarstepan
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 11:22 am
@George,
George wrote:

...
BURN, BABY, BURN!

Then off to burn down Yankee Stadium!
http://i57.tinypic.com/34ya445.gif
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Frank Apisa
 
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Reply Thu 13 Mar, 2014 11:50 am
@edgarblythe,
If you can find one, what we used to call a "telephone book" is a great burn. Puts out lots of heat, so best you burn 'em in a wood burning stove if possible.

You don't see many these days. They have almost no use.
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Finn dAbuzz
 
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Reply Sat 15 Mar, 2014 12:45 am
@George,
BOSTON SUCKS!

(No image required)
George
 
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Reply Mon 17 Mar, 2014 12:59 pm
@Finn dAbuzz,
Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehhehehehehehehhe
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raprap
 
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Reply Sun 30 Mar, 2014 03:47 am
Anything with 'Big Dummy' in the title.

Rap
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 23 May, 2014 07:02 pm
The thread was started in jest. Rolling Eyes
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jespah
 
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Reply Fri 23 May, 2014 07:02 pm
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Fri 23 May, 2014 07:37 pm
I don't think you understand what's going on here.
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