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To: Held_to_Ransom
BTW, if you want to learn something about Asa Gray, the following is far and away the best biography so far as I am aware:

Asa Gray: American Botanist, Friend of Darwin by A. Hunter Dupree

It's usefully read in conjunction with:

Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science by Edward Lurie

170 posted on 11/03/2003 5:27:09 PM PST by Stultis
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To: Stultis
The leading American botanist of the nineteenth century, Asa Gray helped organize the main generalizations of the science of plant geography. The manual of botany that carries his name is still in use today. Friend and confidant of Charles Darwin, Gray became the most persistent and effective American protagonist of Darwin's views. Yet at the same time, he believed that religion and Darwin's theory of natural selection could coexist. A. Hunter Dupree's authoritative biography offers the first full-length interpretation of one of America's most important men of science.

Asa was Fiske's mentor and fellow professor. To think they didn't constantly share viewpoints is aburd, and the blurb above kind of puts a hole in your attempt to dismiss Fiske and the notion that Darwin didn't hold a Christian viewpoint. Yet, you brought up Gray while trying to deny Fiske. Got it straight now?

173 posted on 11/03/2003 7:44:25 PM PST by Held_to_Ransom
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