![]() ![]() He could then assure his students that he had unassailable expert knowledge with which to refute Darwinism. Our task was to take the affirmative side in a debate: “ Resolved, That the Theory of Evolution is proved as is the fact that the Earth goes around the Sun.” One of our opponents in the debate was a professor of biology from a fundamentalist college in Texas (his father was the president of the college) who had quite deliberately chosen the notoriously evolutionist Department of Zoology of the University of Texas as the source of his Ph.D. I first met Carl Sagan in 1964, when he and I found ourselves in Arkansas on the platform of the Little Rock Auditorium, where we had been dispatched by command of the leading geneticist of the day, Herman Muller. Watson and Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or my work.” “What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently: “you say that we go round the sun. ![]()
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