FYI, when you don't confine yourself to a "Conservative opinion" website, and actually research what Darwin was talking about, you find this:
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/g...athan.html
Quote:Just two years after penning his bear-to-whale tale, Darwin lamented to a friend (letter to James Lamont, February 25, 1861), “It is laughable how often I have been attacked and misrepresented about this bear.”
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/library/g...athan.html