Canals on Mars: A Mistaken Design Inference

Alfred Russel Wallace, Are the Planets Inhabited?, astronomers, astronomy, canals, E. M. Antoniadi, E. Walter Maunder, earth, Giovanni Schiaparelli, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Is Mars Habitable?, Man’s Place in the Universe, Mariner 4, Mars, Mars (book), Mars and Its Canals, Mars as the Abode of Life, Martians, meteorites, optical illusions, Percival Lowell, Planetology, planets, universe
Any remaining doubts were settled by Mariner 4 which flew by Mars in 1965 and took pictures demonstrating that there were no canals. Source
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The Dawkinsian Mythology

Anthony Flew, Bernard de Fontenelle, Charles Darwin, complexification, David Stove, Evolution, gemmules, heredity, Intelligent Design, John Gray, Martian canals, Mary Midgely, meme, pangenesis, Percival Lowell, phlogiston, Richard Dawkins, Richard Spilsbury, The Selfish Gene, Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science (series)
Philosopher Mary Midgely pointed out the fatuousness of the “meme” hypothesis in painfully direct terms. Source
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