James Moore (biographer)

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James Moore

A rare photograph of James Moore in a church

James Moore, historian of science at the Open University and the University of Cambridge and visiting scholar at Harvard University, is noted as the author of several biographies of Charles Darwin. He was brought up in a fundamentalist family in Chicago with the idea that Charles Darwin was an enemy of God. As a Cambridge research scholar and a member of the teaching staff at the Open University, he has studied and written about Darwin since the 1970s, co-authoring with Adrian Desmond the major biography Darwin, and also writing The Darwin Legend, The Post Darwin Controversies, and many articles and reviews.

During a Paramount Comedy podcast, Mark Steel described his negative experience working with Moore on his documentary series "The Mark Steel Lectures". Moore had been asked to check the scripts for factual inaccuracies, but instead began chastising Steele for a minor spelling mistake (something which was not important, since it was a television script). He also argued about a "preposterous" quote, but eventually had to back down after Steele remembered that the quote was in fact from Moore's own book. Moore had his name taken off the program because of the various complaints he had. [1]


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  1. ^ Paramount Comedy Podcast: Robin Ince's Utter Shambles, Episode 3
  • Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin, London: Michael Joseph, the Penguin Group, 1991, ISBN 0-14-013192-2
  • The Darwin Legend, Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1995, ISBN 0-340-64243-2

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