Re: Original Origin of the Species discovered in bathroom

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091122/ap_on_en_ot/eu_britain_darwin

Rare Charles Darwin book found on toilet bookshelf

LONDON – An auction house says it is selling a rare first edition of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" found in a family's guest lavatory in southern England.
Christie's auction house said Sunday the book — one of around 1,250 copies first printed in 1859 — had been on a toilet bookshelf at a family's home in Oxford.....

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Uh... The Creationists are laughing?

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Uh... The Creationists are laughing?

They can laugh?

Despite attempt by the right to wipe it from history

Sold at auction for about $172,000.

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan

Interesting that the book was sold this month:
from Smithsonian website
150 Years Ago

Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, "the chief work of my life," November 22, 1859. In it he marshals 20 years of biological and geological observations to support his theory that the descent—he will not use the word "evolution" until 1872—of all creatures is governed by natural selection, "the preservation of favorable variations, and the rejection of injurious variations." The first printing of 1,250 copies sells out in a day, and Origin lays the groundwork for modern scientific thought.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/This-Month-in-History-Nov09.html#ixzz0XwCYj9FU

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The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.
-- Carl Sagan