FROM THE BEETLES' POINT OF VIEW

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: May 20, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

A famous story in the history of science has the classical scholar Benjamin Jowett ask the biologist J. B. S. Haldane what he had learned about God from his scientific studies.

Haldane answered, "He has an inordinate fondness for beetles."

The conversation supposedly took place at high table at Balliol College, Oxford. Never mind that Haldane was born the year before Jowett died. Perhaps it was Haldane's father, a physiologist, or his uncle, later Lord Chancellor, who was questioned by Jowett. Perhaps a Jowett wasn't involved at all. More likely, the entire story is an invention.

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