September 2010
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A must read book: Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins (Editors: Denis R. Alexander, Ronald L. Numbers, The University of Chicago Press, 2010) Contents Introduction Denis R. Alexander and Ronald L. Numbers chapter 1. The cultural authority of natural history in early modern Europe Peter Harrison chapter 2. Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century
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What do you expect to find after the Resting Day passed? When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the