smithsonianmag.com — We call it Darwinism, for short. But in truth, it didn't start with Darwin, or with his rival Alfred Russel Wallace either, for that matter. We often act today as if Darwin invented the idea of evolution itself, including the theory that human beings developed from an ape ancestor. Like evolution itself, science more often advances by small steps.
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robbiedoJun 9, 2008
General Relativity is described as one of the few cases where a single thinker brought to light an entirely new understanding of reality with little of no preceding body of work. I have often heard scientists ponder whether we would still be waiting for a theory of gravity, if Einstein didn't come along.
cschmitzJun 9, 2008
Evolution is full of holes??! You do realize that creationism is just one big hole itself right??
rushjaycarrJun 12, 2008
Read the God Delusion if you like. Just read the other side too. That's all I ask.
rushjaycarrJun 12, 2008
And why should we not accept God? He created us, gave us this world to live in, and sent His only Son to die for us! A little gratitude in return for eternal life seems fair to me!
rushjaycarrJun 12, 2008
Mocking me and spitefully slinging mud at a man far more intelligent than you just works against you. Before you get all vindictive, read the bloody book!
wasabihoundFeb 10, 2009
Too late for anyone to read this but it is interesting to note that Wallace was also influenced by Malthus. David Quammen in the excellent book: Song of the Dodo quotes Wallace as saying with reference to Malthus seminal work: Essay on Population: "a work I had read several years before, and which had made a deep and permanent impression on me" (cited on p109 of Quammen's book)By the way, big fan of Alfred R Wallace and Charles Darwin (despite their propensity to shoot things - however, dangerous to judge 1800 behaviour by 2000 standards - at least in this instance, I guess it was practical at the time.)