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   From: Kenito@Benito.naw   
      
   On Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:21:58 +0000, jojo  wrote:   
      
   >Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >> On 8/18/2025 10:42 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >>> On 8/18/25 8:44 PM, Dawn Flood wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 8/18/2025 12:37 PM, JTEM wrote:   
   >>>>> 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:   
   >>>   
   >>> Darwin's grandfather was probably the biggest proponent of   
   >>> common descent in his day. Darwin was simply regurgitating   
   >>> what he was raised with.   
   >>>   
   >>> Darwin never looked forward, as an idiot who simply accepted   
   >>> what was told, he always looked backwards. This is how he   
   >>> could believe in such idiocy as his pangenesis. He plagiarized   
   >>> lamarck! That's all. And even Lamarck was hardly a trail   
   >>> blazer himself! It was all well tred ground...   
   >>>   
   >>> This is exactly like you:  Not educated but trained like one   
   >>> of Pavlov's Dogs!  The absolute easiest thing in the world   
   >>> would be to look at a myth such as Darwin and saying, "Yeah.   
   >>> What we are taught about Darwin is a myth. The jackass didn't   
   >>> even believe in evolution!"   
   >>>   
   >>> Well it would be easy if you didn't merely accept what was   
   >>> handed to you....   
   >>   
   >> Darwin's original idea was evolution by natural selection, an   
   >> idea that he developed over the course of a few decades.  Alfred   
   >> Russel Wallace discovered the similar idea over the course of a   
   >> few hours, wrote it up and sent his manuscript across the World   
   >> (Wallace was in southeast Asia at the time) to Darwin!  It was   
   >> Darwin's friends, Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker, who arranged   
   >> for both Darwin and Wallace's papers to be published   
   >> simultaneously with a reading at the Linnean Society.   
   >   
   >did wallace do any field work? if not, no credits for him.   
      
        He did.   
        If you wish to learn more about Wallace, you can read the   
   following at your leisure:   
      
   https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thoug   
   t/1800s/natural-selection-charles-darwin-alfred-russel-wallace/   
      
   https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/alfred-wallace/   
      
        There are many more site you can read, if you wish, of course.   
   These are just two of many that detail his part in the theory of   
   evolution.   
      
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