What do they think Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Erasmus Darwin were talking and writing about before Charles Darwin was even born? Chambers, Grant, Jameson, and many others were debating and publishing works on evolution decades before Charles Darwin did.
Is it just that they are bitter because he enlighteed the world to an observable mechanism behind evolution (natural selection)?
2007-09-13 12:54:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, I think they like to focus on Darwin and not the other people around the same time who agreed with him. In fact, there was a guy who published a work on natural selection just a couple of weeks before Darwin, and was eventually credited with being the co-discoverer-- Alfred Russel Wallace.
Anyway-- the Creationists want to marginalize evolution and make it seem like a one man show, which is the reason they always use the derisive term "Darwinist" or "Darwinism" as if the whole theory was invented by just a single man -- but the pieces were in place at that time for many other naturalists to make similar discoveries.
2007-09-13 13:02:15 · answer #1 · answered by Daniel 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Giving people labels doesn't help... I know some people use Darwinism rather than evolutionist... like some people use Creationist instead of skeptics, questioners or doubters. The reality is if anyone dares question the given assumption that a scientific evolution theory must be correct they are instantly called a creationist. We are supposed to either accept evolution or we must believe in a literal Genesis story.... as if there is no middle ground. I am sorry but I simply don't believe what I am told just because it sounds plausible. I am glad some people are taking the evolution theory further and that other people are prepared to stand by their beliefs. I am also quite sure there are many other people, like me, who are no more than mildly interested and happy to hear a range of ideas.
2016-05-18 23:42:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but natural selection doesn't prove evolution...it just shows that there are changes WITHIN a SPECIES!!! And no any well informed Creationist knows that there were those before Darwin that had thoughts pertaining to a world without God.
2007-09-13 16:38:29 · answer #3 · answered by cbmultiplechoice 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I thought Darwin just annotated the natural selection process with his observances in the Galapagos?
2007-09-13 13:00:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Darwin had it right.
You can even argue that Aristotle thought of evolution first with his scala naturae and it's true that Lamarck did think animals could change over time and he is regarded as the father of evolution in France but he said acquired characteristics that a species gets in its lifetime can be inherited by their offspring. This is, as we should all know, wrong.
But in the end, Darwin had it right!
2007-09-13 12:57:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
Man not being mean, but evolution is absurd, think about it there is billions of missing links that they cannot even explain, let us loOK at it this away, a fish decides to go to the land and lay there for millions of years without water, food, air and then says ok grow lungs, now legs, and now arms, and then I will eventually turn into a human or a hippo or something, or a bear goes into the water and then over millions of years, grows gills, fins and all. That sounds stupid doesn't it, well think about it, that is the thought from evolution.
2007-09-13 13:58:19 · answer #6 · answered by Apologist 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They think that Darwin's ideas were Satan trying to trick him.
Summary of Christianity:
The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense, huh?
2007-09-13 12:59:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Those who have not studied the theory usually do, but sometimes you do find some well educated idiots. Towards the end of his life Darwin renounced his research. He knew that it was inconclusive.
Then again, anyone who subscribes to the theory of evolution has obviously descended from apes.
I hope that's not too much attitude.
2007-09-13 13:06:27 · answer #8 · answered by Caveman 5 · 1⤊ 4⤋
No, it's just because people like this have no understanding of science or history, and if they only opened a book they would be able to educate themselves. It actually upsets me that there are people in the world who insist on keeping themselves in the dark like this.
2007-09-13 12:58:08 · answer #9 · answered by murnip 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Nope, he came up with natural selection.
2007-09-13 13:00:12 · answer #10 · answered by Ally... 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋