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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/18/2025 12:37 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 8/18/25 11:05 AM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >   
   >> Please note that JTEM has not (yet) replied to my post about the   
   >> statistician and geneticist Ronald A. Fisher.   
   >   
   > Well my point is about Darwin and how, specifically, everything   
   > people BELIEVE about him is a myth.   
   >   
   > If you need to invoke a later name in an attempt to reform   
   > Darwin, what you're really doing is furthering my point.   
   >   
   > You're agreeing with me.   
   >   
   > Darwin was an idiot.   
   >   
   > And even your invoking of a third name is disinformation as it   
   > suggests that Darwin got "Evolution" right.   
   >   
   > He didn't.   
   >   
   > Darwin wasn't writing about evolution, he was writing about   
   > common descent, and he got it wrong. He didn't believe in   
   > evolution at all. He believed the same kind of pseudo   
   > scientific idiocy that the people who OUTLAWED evolution   
   > believed!   
   >   
   >> Prior to Darwin and his work, the prevailing view among scholars was   
   >> that species were immutable   
   >   
   > Ironically, it was only the people who just accepted what they were   
   > told, as you are doing, that got it wrong. Common Descent was very   
   > old by the time Darwin first started to misunderstand it, and   
   > evolution has ALWAYS been a part of it.   
   >   
   >> having been each specially created by an omnipotent God.   
   >   
   > There was a time when the prevailing view was the mice and roaches   
   > and other pests just spontaneously formed. Leave a pile of rags in   
   > the corner, was the example, and mice would pop into existence, living   
   > there.   
   >   
   > I know this. And Darwin AND YOU group with these people, believing   
   > what you always heard and never challenging or testing.   
   >   
      
   No way!  Here was the prevailing view prior to Darwin:   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Theology_or_Evidences_of_t   
   e_Existence_and_Attributes_of_the_Deity   
      
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