Day 1264: Evolution Isn’t Just About Darwin

NYTimes Essay | Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live

Equating evolution with Charles Darwin ignores 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution. Such as: Gregor Mendel“s patterns of heredity (which gave Darwin“s idea of natural selection a mechanism ” genetics ” by which it could work); the discovery of DNA (which gave genetics a mechanism and lets us see evolutionary lineages); developmental biology (which gives DNA a mechanism); studies documenting evolution in nature (which converted the hypothetical to observable fact); evolution“s role in medicine and disease (bringing immediate relevance to the topic); and more.

By propounding Darwinism, even scientists and science writers perpetuate an impression that evolution is about one man, one book, one theory. The ninth-century Buddhist master Lin Chi said, If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him. The point is that making a master teacher into a sacred fetish misses the essence of his teaching. So let us now kill Darwin.

My emphasis above reiterates that evolution is an observable fact, but how we tie the facts together into something larger is theory, subject to change.

I highly recommend that you read Simon Winchester’s Krakatoa.  Not only does the book describe over and over again how civilization exists by geological and meteorological permission, but also explains the irrefutable data discovered by Alfred Wallace at a time when advances in geology (and what would later come to be known as plate tectonics) and evolutionary biology were beginning to fit hand in glove.   Darwin was by no means the first and only arrival at this important gate.

… Darwin had been incubating his thesis for two decades when Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to him from Southeast Asia, independently outlining the same idea. Fearing a scoop, Darwin“s colleagues arranged a public presentation crediting both men. It was an idea whose time had come, with or without Darwin.

To refute evolution is to deny the age of the rocks from which your gasoline and plastic come from and to ignore the underpinnings of modern drugs and medical care.  Geology, chemistry, biology – all of these go hand in hand.  Accepting what fits your lifestyle and denying that which contradicts your faith is tantamount to a lie, and a very shaky footing from which to make educational policy.  Learn more, discuss more and think about it.

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