XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.conspiracy, alt.atheism
XPost: alt.religion.christian
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Kenito Benito wrote:
> 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-tho
ght/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.
>
thanks, it will be at my leisure.
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