Ed Ricketts - Hero of Biologists

In Nature v. 430, 22 July 2004, p. 403 "Journey of a scientific hero: A fictionalized biologist finally gets the biography he deserves" is a book review of Beyond the Outer Shores: The Untold Odyssey of Ed Ricketts, the Pioneering Ecologist Who Inspired John Steinbeck and Joseph Campbell.

(Author Eric Enno Tamm, reviewer Jon Christensen). The most famous inspiration may be found in the character "Doc" in Steinbeck's Cannery Row. However, the real man "is a hero among marine biologists -- mention his name and their faces light up."

All the preceeding is merely to introduce a couple little bits of the review. It seems that "Ricketts went to the University of Chicago, but did not graduate, before coming west...to set up shop as a freelance scientist..." (jumping to p. 404) "Ricketts' work was never published in scientific journals."

My, my, isn't that interesting? Here's this great "hero" of biologists who didn't even have an undergraduate degree and never published anything in a scientific journal -- and yet evolutionists plug their ears and scream "You're not a scientist!" rather than listen to someone question their theory, sometimes even if that person has a Ph.D. and has published many articles in scientific journals..


Until Next Time,
David Bump