Evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 20:34 (5548 days ago) @ George Jelliss

It strikes me as a bit desperate if you have to go back to citing a 1920s Catholic propagandist like Chesterton against evolution! > 
> The first to use the term Darwinism was probably Alfred Russel Wallace who wrote a book with that title, but he intended it to honour Darwin. - Perhaps in the UK -ism and -ist are now perjorative. Here those suffixes are used more as identifiers. Marxism is perfectly acceptable. What is not acceptable to me is purposely identifying Chesterton as a "Catholic propagandist", sounding almost like an epithet in its disparaging meaning. In public I am certainly politically correct, although I abhore political correctness for its mealy- mouthed approach to everything in general. I have observed some beliefs, which in my privately considered opinion are truly 'nutty', but those opinions remain private. In the US there are Chesterton Societies giving full exhibit to his highly approved writing abilities, whence came what I put on this website. My underlying point is: here it is 90+ years later and there are still many of us with exactly the same feelings about Darwin's proposal, humps, horns, and elongated necks to reach the acacia tree leaves accounted for.