She died of cancer prior to the Nobel being awarded, and there are no posthumous Nobels. Wilkins was awarded the Nobel, mostly for pinching one of Franklin’s picture and showing it to Watson and Crick.
Darwin was essentially pushed out of the church by the battle between Huxley and the church. I doubt he altered his personal views at all. Which is the basis for the current problem – many who claim to know what Christianity is refuse to allow the freedom to explore the world. Most scientists become atheists, because they won’t give up science for what some people believe Christianity now demands.
]]>But here are the things the fundamentalist Right will take away from the conversation: Darwin started out a devout Christian and wound up… something else altogether, though it is hard to tell exactly what, and both Wilson and Watson are effectively atheists, for good and sufficient reason from their own perspectives. I wonder if PBS has heard from Dobson yet. And Falwell, and Robertson, and…
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