Re: King Laurin?

Paul S Person wrote:

Don wrote:

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My literary life lights upon another treacherous dwarf:
>
   During the banquet, Peter of Rheinhausen, Manfred?s minnesinger,
   sang from the Heroes' Book, choosing the passage wherein King
   Dietrich?s band of knights attack the Rose Garden of the
   treacherous dwarf, Laurin, so to rescue the sister of Dietlieb,
   their comrade.
>
The excerpt's from _Eifelheim_ (Flynn), an audio book currently gracing
my ears. The time and place of its primary setting is 1348 - 1349 in the
Black Forest.

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I recall my reaction to /Eifelheim/. I stopped reading the "novel"
parts because whoever wrote clearly had no idea how to write about the
middle ages. Also because one of the "novellette" parts gave away the
ending, or so I thought. I did read the "novellette" parts in
sequence, which were pretty good.
>
They should have gotten Eco to write the novel parts, in Italian, and
then had them translated by whoever translated, say, /Baudolino/.
>
Or at least somebody who wouldn't portray a medieval priest, however
well-educated for his day, as an early modern scientist. And didn't
confusing "boring" with "medieval".
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This is, of course, IMHO.

The Right Reverend Gregor Mendel OSA is one example of a Catholic
scientist. Mendel founded the modern science of genetics.
    Among its flaws, Darwinism fails to account for Mendelian
inheritance. Here's a re-post of a scientific paper exorcised from
another thread:

    Mathematical Challenges to Macroevolution

    Abstract

    The theory of evolution was advanced by Darwin in 1859, prior
    to Mendel’s experiments demonstrating the particulate nature
    of inheritance. The modern synthesis was formulated in the
    early 1940s, well before the concept of coded information
    was understood. This paper outlines four mathematical
    challenges to the modern synthesis, which are based on
    current understanding of the proposed mechanisms of
    evolutionary change within the constraints of experimental
    molecular biology.

    (10.4236/jamp.2022.1011224)

Danke,

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