insects appeared at the same time! What would Saint Chuck have to say about that?
Over and over we read in all this cheerleading for evolution that it is the “fundamental principle of biology”, or the “foundation of all biology”, or the “fundamental rule that drives all biology”, or the “central unifying concept of biology”, or “one of the most basic tenets of biology”. These statements go completely unchallenged. Am I the only one who hasn’t the vaguest idea what they’re talking about? Are you telling me that nobody bred sheep, grew a stalk of corn, or watered a petunia before 1859??? That all of the work in biology before Darwin is a figment of our imagination, including Gregor Mendel and his work in genetics? Having been prompted by the court case to dip into this issue again, I see that I was somewhat confused about the current state of evolutionary thought. No one hides the fact that Darwin’s ideas fell by the wayside within a few decades. Now you read buzzwords like “modern synthesis” and “synthetic theory” and “neo-Darwinism”. I know there are at least a hand
