RE: falsifying the idea of falsification
April 3, 2020 at 5:26 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2020 at 5:27 pm by Belacqua.)
(April 3, 2020 at 3:01 pm)Nomad Wrote: Yeah right. By even calling it Darwinism you are showing your creationist beliefs.
My experience has been that British people continue to use "Darwinism" in a neutral way.
Because creationists use the term a lot, Americans have begun to associate the term with them. But that isn't true for everyone.
Wikipedia:
Quote:However, Darwinism is also used neutrally within the scientific community to distinguish the modern evolutionary synthesis, which is sometimes called "neo-Darwinism", from those first proposed by Darwin. Darwinism also is used neutrally by historians to differentiate his theory from other evolutionary theories current around the same period. For example, Darwinism may be used to refer to Darwin's proposed mechanism of natural selection, in comparison to more recent mechanisms such as genetic drift and gene flow. It may also refer specifically to the role of Charles Darwin as opposed to others in the history of evolutionary thought—particularly contrasting Darwin's results with those of earlier theories such as Lamarckism or later ones such as the modern evolutionary synthesis.
In political discussions in the United States, the term is mostly used by its enemies.[citation needed] "It's a rhetorical device to make evolution seem like a kind of faith, like 'Maoism,'" says Harvard University biologist E. O. Wilson. He adds, "Scientists don't call it 'Darwinism'."[30]
In the United Kingdom the term often retains its positive sense as a reference to natural selection, and for example British atheist Richard Dawkins wrote in his collection of essays A Devil's Chaplain, published in 2003, that as a scientist he is a Darwinist.[31]
emphasis added
I don't know where Agnostico is from, but due to the fact that he said "cheers" to me, I'm guessing UK or Australia.