Posted: Apr 11, 2020 12:43 am
Wortfish wrote:Explain why 50 years after Darwin published his famous work, the majority of scientists had rejected his claim about natural selection.
That's easy: Science evolves. That's why the vast majority of scientists accept his claim about natural selection.
Funnily enough, Darwin already destroyed your argument in part of the quote above that you intentionally elided:
When it was first said that the sun stood still and the world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei, as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science.