Quote:
Originally Posted by T@T
Dumb article, lets destroy Darwin because he was the first to say that species evolved instead of the way the bible says it happened.
|
Did you read the article? This article is not criticizing Darwin - she praises him as a person who revolutionized evolutionary biology. He was a man years ahead of his time, and his theories have been vindicated by advances in knowledge (i.e. DNA and genetics).
The complaint is that the term "Darwinian" and "Darwinist" are very narrow, and do not sufficiently cover the grandness and power of the theory of evolution. By concentrating on the "Darwin" part of evolution, you ignore the advances that have been made in the 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species. Darwin had nothing to say on DNA, for example - because it wasn't discovered for many years after his death. Today, we realize that DNA plays a vital role in evolutionary theory.
Evolutionary biology has long outgrown the narrow label of "Darwinism".