Life and Death in the Andes

by Kim MacQuarrie
Category: "Travel"
Pages:386
Year of Publication:2015
Date Added:02/08/2016
Date Read:10/12/2020
Notes:Subtitle: On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries

Essays on criminals and wackos (like Charles Darwin) who have operated in South America.
My Rating: 4

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Review - Life and Death in the Andes

I didn't read it all. The author makes heroes of drug dealers and criminals. In his piece on Darwin, he began by pointing out what a poor naturalist Darwin was, then gives him credit for great insight. But his argument is bogus—in 30 pages, he must have pointed out 15 times (on one occasion, twice in one sentence) that creationists believed in the immutability of species and Darwin proved them wrong. But I don't know of a single creationist these days who believes that—just immutability of kinds. So his whole argument was to disprove a belief that nobody holds anymore.
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