Evolution (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 23, 2009, 19:59 (5397 days ago) @ David Turell

I wish to give a further expression of my thinking about Darwin and persons' responses to his writing and his theory: - I don't think my writing is that obtuse. I am arguing methodology of evolution, but not denying an evolutionary process existed and exists. What I am encountering, is a rigid fixation of thought on Darwin, so strong, that if in a discussion of evolution it is stated that change may not be accomplished by tiny modifications only, Darwin and evolution have been denied as if they are Siamese twins. It is as if Darwin invented evolution, and described the single (only) method for evolution, so if changed in any conceptual way, it cannot exist without him. I have brought up the issue of large jumps or changes. The folks who do research in evolution even have a term for large sudden changes. It is 'saltation'. Why the term if sudden large changes never happen? Did Darwin write inerrant gospel? Are the persons who think in this way simply Darwinian acolytes who can accept no thoughtful discussion of him or his theory?