re: #1038 Cato

Charles Darwin is NOT about genetics, although genes are influenced by natural selection. Darwin is about a process that is just completely inapplicable to man. We have evolved beyond it and therefore the process is NOT universal. To the extent you think it is, you have to twist yourself in knots or say what is obvious to all is not evidence.

Charles Darwin or Darwin, is not “about” anything. Charles Darwin was a man with a theory. That theory is “evolution.” There is no such thing as “Darwinism.”

As for “we have evolved beyond” Darwin, or evolution, that evolution is “inapplicable” to man, that is the most ridiculous and bizarre thing I have ever heard. We are still very much subject to evolutionary processes, no matter how effective we may be at altering our environment to suit ourselves. In fact, the very act of altering our environment to suit ourselves has caused evolutionary changes, such as our relative hairlessness.

Just because we can resist or block out natural forces and processes more effectively than other creatures does not mean we are no longer subject to natural forces and processes. And nature has a nasty way of reminding us of this from time to time.