Another reason to love Leicester: Evolutionary prose

Alun Salt
Alun Salt
Published in
1 min readNov 25, 2005

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There are people here like Jan Zalasiewicz who can write on evolution like this:

One should therefore proceed nervously, aware that an incautious simile here, a misplaced analogy there, could precipitate a chain of events that might in future years enforce us all, by some Educational Decree or other, to give equal weighting to the theory that dinosaurs were Intelligently Designed (though, in the case of the duck-billed dinosaurs, perhaps Humorously Designed) and that the devil’s toenail is no less than divinely encoiled.

Things ain’t what they used to be

You can see all his columns here.

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