Loren Eiseley was an anthropologist, an author, and an educator in the United States, in the 20 century. Eiseley wrote anthropology for the lay person in a poetic style. Loren Eiseley was educated at the University of Nebraska and the University of Pennsylvania. He began his academic career at the University of Kansas in 1937 and Oberlin College in 1944. Besides serving as a professor of anthology, he also served as a consultant to museums, foundations, and U.S. government and was the host-narrator of the television series Animal Secrets, in 1966.

EiseleyÕs scientific research was directed towards the dating of index fossils of the Pleistocene Eboch and the extinction of Ice Age fauna. He was best known for his examination of human evolution. EiseleyÕs writings covered the wide range of questions on evolution and its implications for humanity. He published more than a dozen books including, The Unexpected Universe, in which I will be comparing to the works of Galileo.

Galileo Galilei was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and

read little of other menÕs works, this was opposite to Eiseley who read many other philosopherÕs works to understand their views and write his own opinions.

ÒHence I consider it not very sound to judge a manÕs philosophical opinions by the number of his followers. Yet though I believe the number of disciples of the best philosophy may be quite small, I do not conclude controversey that those opinions and doctrines are necessarily perfect which have few followers, for I know well enough that some men hold opinions so erroneous as to be rejected by everyone else. But from which of those sources the two authors mentioned by Sarsi derive the scarcity of their followers I don not know, for I have not studied their works sufficiently to

Both writers developed a sense of how science and life are related. They both used examples and proved their philosophy on life and science using examples from their lives.

Eiseley felt at one time that science was the only answer; once he discovered that it was not he, as a scientist, did not want to believe that miracles could happen. ÒSince boyhood I have been charmed . . . This is what had led me originally into science, but now I felt instinctively that something more was needed--though what I needed verged on a miracle. As a scientist, I did not believe in miracles . . .Ó

Ò. . . Darwin, the master of the inner world took that secure, stable, and sunlit province of the mind and revealed t as a place of contending furies. . .Ó Eiseley uses DarwinÕs views to jump to his own. Eiseley later goes on saying how he feels when he thinks about what Darwin is saying. Galileo does not use comparison and other authors in this same way.

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