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[cdb2000]

@VanDee2008 I'm pretty sure I was reading Roland Huntford's book "Scott and Amundsen" on which much of this TV series is based. I haven't just made this all up to make Wilson look bad!

[VanDee2008]

@cdb2000 Once more, Scott thoroughly respected Wilson even if he did not share his faith, and Wilson was a devotee of Darwin's theories! Look up the "Winter Journey" to Cape Crozier that Wilson risked his life for, to try to find evidence of the evolution of birds from dinosaurs! No; the idea of Scott "taunting" his best friend is unbelievable, as is the idea of Wilson passively accepting insults. Why would Huntford print a story in his book that makes absolutely no sense at all?

[cdb2000]

Scott wasn't even a Christian. During the Discovery expedition he took Darwin's Origin of the Species with him on his "furthest south" trip. He almost taunted Wilson by making him read from it (Wilson was religious)

[VanDee2008]

@cdb2000 Where on earth did you get the information that Scott "taunted" Wilson? He and Wilson were great friends, he would never have been nasty to him. Also, where do you get the idea that Wilson was a spineless doormat who could be "made" to do anything he found distasteful? Finally, Wilson was comfortable balancing his faith with new scientific discoveries: this is why he went on the "Winter Journey", to prove a theory about evolution!! Please stop spreading misinformation. Thank you.

[VanDee2008]

@campgalley Well spotted - when you posted, it was the 100-year-anniversary of that depot-laying trip! (I'm adding this comment since someone wrongly flagged your comment as spam).

[neil73]

"Regret it or not Oates, I've made up my mind like a Christian" So Scott, in the face of all evidence to the contrary, refuses to change his way of thinking to hold on to some fairytale to answer the unknowable.