When the earth shook and the San Francisco Bay Area trembled, a statue fell off the Zoology building at Stanford. That statue was of the paleontologist Louis Agassiz. Agassiz, a contemporary of Charles Darwin and staunch critic of his theory of evolution, got his due. Kevin calls it irony; I say it's symbolic of the end of the anti-evolution movement. Everything since then has been dedicated towards resurrecting ghosts. The picture is below the fold.
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No Se Nada highlights (and RPM picks it up) a picture of a statue of Louis Agassiz head-first in the ground after the
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Its worth pointing out that, anti-evolutionary activity aside, Agassiz was a great man. His glacial theory totally revolutionised the way we view the earth system and by moving things away from a biblical flood, the geologic record itself. In my field (Quaternary Science) he is quite rightly viewed as a legend.
That is a great photo. Now I want to know what happened to the statue. Did it ever get replaced?