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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 8/18/2025 10:47 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   > On 8/18/25 8:50 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >> On 8/18/2025 11:47 AM, JTEM wrote:   
   >   
   >>> It was his fault. He did damage science, not advance it. If his   
   >>> mother had the good sense to drown him in the tub as a infant   
   >>> Wallace would have still accomplished his work, Mendel still   
   >>> would have investigated inheritance and "Evolution" would have   
   >>> still entered public knowledge.   
   >>>   
   >>> Darwin set back science 20 years!   
   >>>   
   >>> So even if it would have taken another five or 10 years without   
   >>> the low life from an aristocratic family, our timeline STILL would   
   >>> have advanced anywhere from 10 to 15 years AHEAD of where we   
   >>> presently are!   
   >>>   
   >   
   >> Absolute and utter nonsense.   
   >   
   > No, you're just an idiot that can't think and must regurgitate what   
   > has been spoon fed to it over the years... exactly like Darwin...   
   > exactly like the people who believed in spontaneously formed mice...   
   >   
   >  > Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' is > "considered to be the   
   > foundation of evolutionary biology."   
   >   
   > It was about common descent. THAT was his subject! NOT evolution but   
   > common descent.   
   >   
   > P.S.  You misspelled the "Transmutation of species."   
   >   
   > Darwin believed that if an animal used it's leg muscles a lot, built   
   > them us, it's body produced "Built up leg muscle gemmules." These   
   > traveled to the gonads and were passed on to their offspring which   
   > would be born with built-up leg muscles.   
   >   
      
   I never used the word "transmutation", but, what's your point??  (That   
   Darwin titled his book incorrectly??)  Yes, Darwin's views changed over   
   his lifetime, as he drifted towards Lamarckism.  So what?!  Lamarckism   
   is (almost entirely) discredited; only a tiny number of situations exist   
   in Nature where gene expression can be altered by environmental factors   
   that impacts an organism's germ line.   
      
   The central complex in Darwin's Origin is "descent with modification".   
   Originally, Darwin focused on "natural selection" as the primary cause   
   of evolution, but later on, he became more convinced, incorrectly, that   
   Lamarck's views were correct.   
      
   Dawn   
      
   P.S.  Have you ever taken any course in biology??   
      
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