Talk:Edwin Conklin

False quote

There is a false quote sometimes attributed to Edwin Conklin that I have removed from the article. This explains further:

[...] supposedly quoted poor Edwin Conklin (1863-1952). Conklin was widely attacked by creationists who claim he supported racism because he was a "Darwinist", and now he is frequently misrepresented as arguing for special creation.

Let us consider this so-called quote further. I find it is typically found presented pretty much as [he] has copied it (obviously not from an original source but from some anonymous text), " According to Princeton Biology Professor, Edwin Conklin, " The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a print shop."- Reader's Digest Jan.1963 pg.92. Some creationists use the year 1956-- Conklin still would have been dead for at least four years. Even more creationists claim this was said by Albert Einstein, or just make the claim as if they thought it up themselves. We are forced to disregard this bit of propaganda due to its lack of honest reportage. Clearly [he] has never read the original text (if one exists), and has dogmatically reguritated creationists web sites, or books.

EDIT: I would like to add that if Edwin is a racist then howcome we find the following quote made by him after working at Rust University in Mississippi inwhich he taught foriegn lanuauge and sciense to African Americans, He was "glad to have this opportunity for which I longed, to take part in a most necessary and humane work." (Dreamdevil)

Evhouse (talk) 15:57, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

Someone added the quote again. This time even without any reference, and even without any context. It was just plainly dumped somewhere in his biography. I just undid this 'edit'.

By the way the link you are referring to doesn't work anymore. It probable can now be found hereMihxil (talk) 10:21, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

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