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Wortfish wrote:Why not listen to the author himself rather than just reading wikipedia excerpts about him?

Because it's a red herring from the crux of the matter: Whether evolution is true and life evolved.

Charles Darwin could have been a slave-owning child rapist and advocated the consumption of vomit, human flesh, and feces, and it still wouldn't make it any less true that life evolved and that you are an ape. Just get over it.

But he attempts to show that Darwin was influenced more by social and economic theories of his day than by anything to do with living organisms.

The facts are what the facts are regardless of what influenced the people who discovered those facts. Charles Darwin could have invented his theory entirely through the liberal use of narcotics and fevered halluscinations, it would not move all the amassed evidence even one iota.

This AN Wilson dude, and your thread about his irrelevant and terrible pseudo-biography, is just one big red herring fallacy having sex with an ad hominem fallacy.

Life evolved, you are an ape, your distant ancestors were primitive primates and you should just grow up and get over it.