(September 18, 2013 at 10:04 pm)Zazzy Wrote:(September 18, 2013 at 9:59 pm)Chas Wrote: But the point really is that he was completely wrong and Darwin was largely right. Darwin came up with the actual mechanism.Yes- Darwin was correct (stunningly so). But this does not negate the debt we owe to those who came before. Darwin didn't start from nowhere.
Darwin wrote of Lamarck:
Lamarck was the first man whose conclusions on the subject excited much attention. This justly celebrated naturalist first published his views in 1801. . . he first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all changes in the organic, as well as in the inorganic world, being the result of law, and not of miraculous interposition.
Darwin clearly believed he stood on Lamarck's shoulders, and so I defend him.
Go right ahead, but don't defend him as 'the father of evolution' because he wasn't.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
