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sounds a bit pagan to me, the sort which Ann Coulter derides as Druids
[[Neil Baldwin]] wrote:
[[Neil Baldwin]] wrote:
:She started out as an English major, but a required biology course made a deep intellectual impression. She changed her major to zoology, graduated magna cum laude in science, won a fellowship for summer study at the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute, then went on to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a master's degree in genetics. [http://www.nationalbook.org/dirletter_rcarson.html]
:She started out as an English major, but a required biology course made a deep intellectual impression. She changed her major to zoology, graduated magna cum laude in science, won a fellowship for summer study at the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute, then went on to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a master's degree in genetics. [http://www.nationalbook.org/dirletter_rcarson.html]
Her book about the ocean, ''The Sea Around Us'',
adopts "an almost Biblical tone"
which "immerses" the reader in "a comforting, warm bath"
yet endorses the [[Evolution]]ary point of view of
"the beginnings of all life out of the synthesis of minerals and elements within the sea".
[[Category:Biologists|Carson, Rachel]]
[[Category:Biologists|Carson, Rachel]]