Would Darwin Censor Intelligent Design?

Some people are fanatics. I thought those opposed to "teaching evolution" were fanatics when I was in high school in Tennessee where the Scopes Law was still on the books and there was periodic agitation to ...

[clone benson]

who couldnt just because of evolution,hehehhahahheheh,but he wasted his life trying to revolutionate him self ,back into a monkey, hehehhahahheheh, but it never happened, hehhehhahahhehhehe

[Dawn Wessel]

I think Darwin would have liked this:

(Genesis) Adam/man (Hebrew-synonyms)=‘ruddy’, rosy, the flush of red blood

‘man became a ‘living soul’‘(Genesis):
soul (Hebrew & Greek)= animal principle/breathing creature

- does not suggest a ‘human’ being but rather a ‘ruddy’ creature (as coming from the ‘red’ earth)

The translations clearly reveal that Adam/man was not initially a ‘human’ being as many believe, but rather a ‘ruddy creature of earth’, an animal (which had to have been a chimpanzee/rhesus monkey because of other evidence and more recent human genome DNA mapping).

Religious tendencies are observed strictly in the ‘human’ species. If human beings are ‘soul (animal)’ then why aren’t such tendencies evident in other animals? Could it be because human beings have something the other animals don’t have?

animal = soul
human being = soul + immortal spirit

One primate, ruddy, gained something the other primates (and other animals) don't have and passed that on.

[Nuggin]

Who cares?

Darwin's opinion on the current religious propaganda is not important. Evolutionary Theory is not tied strictly to Darwin's original proposal.

He got a great many things right. He missed some things which he didn't have any way of knowing.

If Darwin were alive today and fully supported ID, it wouldn't make ID any more scientific. Just like if Einstein were alive today and supported a theory that "magic elves cause gravity with invisible string".

[Feklahr]

Nuggin wrote:

Just like if Einstein were alive today and supported a theory that "magic elves cause gravity with invisible string".

I knew it!

[Magnus Vile]

It might be worth remembering that William Paley's Natural Theology was about, among other things, what we today call Intelligent Design.
And that book was blown out of the water by Darwin's book.

Why? Well, I suspect many here know why. Because Origin of the Species was far better at explaining the evidence.

Darwin didn't need to censor ID, he falsified it. And then replaced it with a theory that better explained the evidence. As it continues to do to this day.