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Darwin as Deity: At the Natural History Museum (
Peter Campbell, 1/15/09, London Review of Books)

But it’s what might seem the dullest things in the exhibition – bits of paper with writing in brown ink or pencil; some of them letters, some notes or manuscripts – that take you to the heart of the matter. The little notebooks Darwin kept over the years are as near as you can get to hearing him think. In the ones that set out ideas on evolution, propositions based on evidence teased and tested in the mind are given their first physical form in a few scribbled words. Here the physical red-bound relic really is thrilling: guessing at the swiftness of the pen, following the layout of the page, takes you a little closer to the moment when memories and thoughts became ideas.

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Short Cuts (Thomas Jones, 11/01/01, LRB)

Evolution is a more satisfying explanation of life than intelligent design/creationism...