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Re: Verne and evoloution

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 11:00:05 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Dear Norm and all:  Doesn't Aronnax tell Conseil that the theory of evolution could be reconciled with the six days of creation?  I'll check "chapter and verse" later, but right now---away from my own books----I seem to remember that idea.  Also, hasn't the boy's backward journey in JTTCOTE been seen as a sustained allusion to evolution?  Again, I'm away....just a few questions/hints to raise the heat of the discussion.  Cheers!  Walter----- Original Message -----

From: Norm Wolcott <nwolcott2~at~kreative.net>

Date: Saturday, June 5, 2004 8:14 pm

Subject: Verne and evoloution

> We know that Verne was converant with the current science of the
> day. Yet evoloution is strangely missing from any of his books. Is
> it that it was only an "English" science which never was reported
> in the French literature, under the catholic influence? Or since
> it was a "subjective" science, did it simply not register witih
> Verne's idea of "discovery" = "science". Certainly the strong
> arguments in England must have had at least a few echoes across
> the channel.
>
> nwolcott2~at~post.harvard.edu Friar Wolcott, Gutenberg Abbey,
> Sherwood Forrest
> Received on Sun 06 Jun 2004 - 19:57:47 IDT

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