re: #22 wheat-dogg

Yeah, Darwin never said we should kill the weak to benefit the strong. But if you want to demonize evolution, what better way than to demonize its co-developer.

Does Wallace ever get lambasted in the same way?

More importantly, evolutionary biologists don’t revere Darwin. They recognize his contribution to science, and as you note, he wasn’t the only biologist who was toying with the hypothesis of natural selection leading to new species.

The anti-science creationists, intelligent design, Zork makes with playdoh, etc. that ambasting Darwin as some kind of “gotcha” are projecting their belief that damaging Darwin, then a miracle occurs, natural selection and evolution are no longer viable theories. Just like creationism fails without a supreme creator. Science don’t work that way.