A. Morley Davies

Arthur Morley Davies (1869-1959) was a British palaeontologist[1] and author or co-author of a number of books on the subject. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Reader in Palaeontology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Awarded the Lyell Medal in 1929.

Davies was a critic of creationism. His book Evolution: And Its Modern Critics was a reply to the arguments of creationists such as Douglas Dewar.[2]

Publications
  • Buckinghamshire: With Maps, Diagrams and Illustrations (1912)
  • A Geography of the British Isles (1929)
  • Tertiary Faunas: A Text-book for Oilfield Palaeontologists and Students of Geology (1934)
  • Evolution: And Its Modern Critics (1937)
gollark: ... also, how do I do binary-mode HTTP?
gollark: Do I need to fetch and write them in binary mode to avoid such possibilities?
gollark: So I wanted to do hashing of potatOS code files using SHA256 or something, but I'm worried that CC's text mode might make the files !!WRONG!!.
gollark: Really, that's more Cloudflare's fault.
gollark: Markdown is quite a neat language. In my opinion its main downside is being a total dodecahedron to parse, but there are standards now and MediaWiki markup is basically *impossible* to parse, so meh.

References
  1. "Retirement of Prof. A. Morley Davies". Nature. 136 (3428): 59–59. 1935. Bibcode:1935Natur.136Q..59.. doi:10.1038/136059a0. ISSN 0028-0836.
  2. Numbers, Ronald L. (2006). The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design. Harvard University Press. p. 151. ISBN 0-674-02339-0.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.