Professor james campbell. James campbell is the ed grebe robinson professor of United States history at stanford university. s research focuses on american and africanAmerican History as well as the broader history of the blackplanet. He is also interested in problems of historical memory or the ways that society tells stories about their past, not only in textbooks but scholarly monographs and also historic sites, museums, memorials, movies and political movements. His publications include songs of zion, the africanamerican Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and south africa raise nation and empire in American History and middle passages africanamerican journeys. He is currently completing a book on the history and memory of the 1964 mississippi summer project and he is certainly one of our most distinguished historians here at stanford, please welcome james campbell. [ applause ] thank you very much for those remarks. One of the problems teaching at a place like this is
Hostile. Host Stephen Meyer author of darwins doubt and the explosive origin of animal life and the case for intelligent design dr. Meyer what was darwins doubt . At. Guest great place to start the conversation i tell this story about his own theory and to he has grown up to be what is a major crisis is an evolutionary theory it was about the explosion that the theological presence of most of the groups of animals in a geological period quite a long time ago. 530 million years ago and darwin was aware of this problem in the origin of species he address that and the acknowledged it was a problem the basically he understood life unfolds in the slow and gradual way and depicted life as a branching trees in which the base of the tree or the trunk represented the first one sol organism all the bridges represented all forms of life that we see today and the connecting bridges were the in germany and forums and the reforms should have risen he also thought it was slowly because he thought ran
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