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Posted by Chatterbox on August 22, 19100 at 11:50:29:
In Reply to: Re: A Slight Divergence? posted by Spotcheck on August 21, 19100 at 11:57:51:
Big snip, where you admit that your theory is exactly the same as Darwin's, and would be accepted by any scientist familiar with modern-day evolutionary theory, expect for the genetic mechanism for which you admit you have no evidence.
A theory that is almost exclusively Darwinian is not going to make Darwinism obselete.
: Darwin knew nothing of genetics - neither did he need to. His greatest contribution to science had nothing to do with genetics.
: I suspected as much genetically. I do not know what contribution you are referring to here though.
: Can you tell me what Charlie's greatest contribution was?
: No, but I would have to guess that species evolve by means of natural selection with descent through modification. Now what is it really?
The answer is in there somewhere. He was not the first to postualte that all animals may be related in some way. That idea goes back to at least the ancient Greeks. He was not the only one to postulate descent with modification as the major mechanism for change, Lamarck suggested it was driven by inheritance of aquired characteristics.
The answer should be clear from what I have said about Mr. Darwin's theory.