This American president’s library contains many books on religion, but it also contains a copy of Darwin’s Origin of Species.
Which American president is it?
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Hmm, could be a lot of them. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was Nixon’s. Carter’s a good candidate as well.
Hmm, On the Origin of Species was published in the 1850s, so that lets out Jefferson. Perhaps one of our most religious prez’s who was also a scholar (Woodrow Wilson)?
Jimmy Carter?
When I think of presidential libraries, I think of Jefferson first. From your description, my guess would be “Isn’t that all of them?” From the picture, though, the shelving is probably a bigger clue than the book covers and titles.
JFK was a reader and author.
I can see I have to give out another hint.
Hint: his library is only a half-day’s drive from me here in Waterloo, Ontario.
Garfield? McKinley? Hayes? Ford? I think all those libraries are within a half day of Waterloo.
Don, one of your guesses is correct.
Garfield? He was schoolteacher and academic. The books are too old to be Gerald Ford.
Ding ding ding! We have a winner. Garfield it is.
Admittedly, I got some of my winning guess by reading the guesses by DonDueed@7. But if I’m to be paid a reward, how about making it a promise by you to post some more about which notion of information, Shannon information or algorithmic complexity, or even the Orgel/Szostak specified information, is appropriate to thinking about the information built into living things in the process of evolution? I’ll happily contribute to such a discussion.