re: #1081 Cato

A)Don’t make me a creationist just because I don’t believe your gospel.

It is not my gospel, and I have never called you a creationist.

B)To me evolution IS Darwin and all the rest are footnotes.

Except it’s not, and they aren’t.

Darwin said:”EVERY SINGLE ORGANIC BEING may be said to be striving to the utmost to increase its numbers” Origin of Species

It is the premise to natural selection and I have demonstrated that it is wrong in humans.

OK, Darwin could have been wrong about that. As we’ve learned more about nature, it doesn’t appear to be entirely true among animals either. Evolution is a pretty complicated and messy thing, perhaps far moreso than Darwin imagined, and the theory continues to be expanded and refined. I think it’s probably more accurate to say that MOST organic beings (but by no means every single one) are striving just to stay alive one way or another.

But since you consider “Darwinism” and “evolution” as synonyms, and regard all the expansions and refinements to the theory since Darwin as mere “footnotes,” this allows you to convince yourself that evolution doesn’t apply to humans. Meanwhile, the rest of us understand that evolution does not begin and end with Darwin. It seems to me that YOU are the one who are taking his every statement as gospel.