(October 15, 2012 at 12:04 pm)Chuck Wrote:(October 15, 2012 at 11:44 am)Darkstar Wrote:It suddenly occured to me how innapropriately titled On The Origin Of Species is! No wonder ignorant people think that evolution explains life's origins!
Why is it inappropriately titled?
Evolution provides the mechanism for life coming to be represented by so many appearently vastly different, yet an very deep level similar, species. Thus origin of species.
How did species originate? If it means originate as in differentiate from the first species, then okay. If it means how did species originate as in the first species, then it would be referring to the origin of life. The scientifically ignorant assume the latter without actaully doing any research, and then attempt to debate the point, much to the annoyance of those who have heard this countless times (not that this thread is trying to tie evolution into abiogenesis, it was just a thought that occured to me).
John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.
