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   XPost: alt.religion.christian   
   From: toylet.toylet@gmail.com   
      
   On 16/8/2025 10:59 am, JTEM wrote:   
   > So Darwin wasn't writing about "Evolution," though he did eventually   
   > use the term, he was writing about Common Descent.   
   >   
   > He got Common Descent through his grandfather, who wasn't a moron   
   > like Darwin. It wasn't Darwin's idea at all.   
   >   
   > "Evolution" had always been a part of Common Descent. If a goat and   
   > a whale share a common ancestor than obviously one or both had to   
   > have "Evolved" since the time of that ancestor. Even so, Darwin wasn't   
   > clever enough to "Get it."   
   >   
   > The Soviet Union under Stalin banned evolution...   
   >   
      
   You are mixing things happened in different time periods!! When Darwin   
   wrote about evolution, Soviet Union didn't exist and Stalin was not yet   
   born. Back then the Holy Church had authories in everything.   
      
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