Darwin Info Now Available Online!

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From Randi.org

http://www.darwin-online.org.uk

GOOD NEWS

Cambridge University (UK) has performed a sterling task for both the public and researchers around the world by placing on the Internet the complete works of one of history's greatest scientists, Charles Darwin. They have digitized some 50,000 pages of text and 40,000 images of original publications, and all of it is searchable. Those with MP3 players can even access downloadable audio files.

This, I'm sure, will deeply annoy the creationist crowd – they dread having anyone exposed to Darwin's ideas – and I'm sure there will be all sorts of legal moves underway to try to get it taken down from the Internet. Before that possibly happens, go to http://www.darwin-online.org.uk and take advantage of this wonderful – all free! – gift from Cambridge. The site features many newly transcribed or never-before-published manuscripts written by the great scientist, including a field notebook from his famous Beagle voyage to the Galapagos Islands, where detailed observations of the wildlife there served to back up his scientific arguments. What's even more remarkable about this achievement is that there are also German, Danish and Russian editions available.

The site presently contains about 50% of the materials that will be provided by 2009, the bicentenary of the great naturalist's birth.