Posted: Oct 05, 2017 11:58 pm
Thomas Eshuis wrote:
It's a transparent piece of polemics aimed at discrediting the current ToE by attacking it's founding father. This is nothing new Worfish, we've seen theists do this for decades.
Wilson makes no religious arguments. He points out that the ToE as a concept was established well before Darwin. What Darwin did was try and explain evolution, for which there were many explanations at the time, in terms of Malthusian economics and Victorian racism.