Posted: Nov 02, 2017 1:42 pm
The_Metatron wrote:...
Blah, blah, blah. Why should Darwin were he alive, be forced to retract all of his work over his use of the word “creator”? What does that lack of insight have to do with any other thing he wrote?
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Actually, Darwin was struggling with his faith after he had made his big voyage in the Beagle - is there a god, and what is the cause of all the diversity of living things that he found. He was right on the first point - there is no god (much to the chagrin of his pious wife), but he was wrong on the second point, because he thought that phenotypic evolution was by inheritance of acqured characteristics (although, to be fair, the importance of genes to the whole tree of life was not generally understood at the time).
EDIT: His main claim to fame was through the sheer volume of his observations, which were later to form the basis of the correct theory of biological evolution.