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LET’S HEAR IT FOR DARWIN & EINSTEIN

Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
5 min readDec 10, 2023

Two geniuses who liberated us from ignorance, superstition and mythology. Their insights and reasonings are needed more than ever today .

STEPHEN SHAIKEN

Dec. 10, 2023

Below: Albert Einstein, Courtesy The history Channel

Above: Charles Darwin, image courtesy of Wiki Images.

Why am I posting about Charles Darwin and his classic scientific works?

Mostly because I admire this man for having almost single- handedly moved the world’s inteligencia from mindless adherence to religious explanations of scientific phenomena to real scientific bases and methodologies. Origin of Species, published in 1859, changed the way intelligent people saw the world and its natural history

When Darwin was first able to confirm his findings and theories, he was loathe to publish them because he knew well that the churches would do all they could to discredit his scientific findings. Many prominent people wanted to believe the world was created in seven…

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Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger
Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Written by Stephen Shaiken, Author & Blogger

Criminal lawyer now a writer. Author of a 6 novel thriller series set in Bangkok & one rock novel set in 1971 NYC. Loves guitar, yoga, travel, nature, politics.

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