Agassiz After San Francisco Earthquake

"Stanford President David S. Jordan wrote, "Somebody—Dr. Angell, perhaps—remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.'"
[http://quake06.stanford.edu/centennial/tour/stop3.html]

This is an Agassiz statue that fell after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

BBC: CHURCHES HOLD DARWIN CONFERENCE

A group of churches in Oxford is hosting a conference to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of scientist Charles Darwin.

The event also commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of his seminal book the Origin of Species, on the theory of evolution.

Organiser reverend Tim Stead said it wanted to explore the relationship between science and religion. [full article]