http://www.uncommondescent.com/intel...rophet-darwin/


Does that mean, he lives?

is the big "D" a prophet?

are we supposed to say, "for the good of aaaaaaaaaaal mennnnnnnnn"....

and then feed a mockingbird, in his memory?

what's the creed?

Darwin’s theory continues to standup under scrutiny by the scientific community.

He didn’t receive a supernatural revelation involving natural selection.

Darwin is dead however his discovery continues to be retold.

“The fact of evolution is the backbone of biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an improved theory, is it then a science or faith?" - Charles Darwin 1809-1882

I rememeber we had Darwin's theory in grade 12 and lots of students found it both ridiculous and laughable . So the teacher had hard time controlling the class with all kinds of ......well....intelligent....questions .

This is the definition of "prophet" in Wikipedia. According to that:

question gets the answer of the big "NO"...

If you come up with other kind of definition for prophet or prophecy, please explain your criteria and logic alongside the definition. So we can scrutinize it.

Actually he was more than a Prophet - he was a Scientist

Darwin didn't discover Natural Selection, its a common sense concept to which he simply gave the words "natural selection".

Peace be unto you

Did prophets discover the "divine creation", or did they just give the words?

There is a difference in my eyes between discovery and common sense. Some things are truly discoveries, natural selection is not one of them.

Anyways its just my opinion, no reason to debate this.

Peace be unto you

Is "divine creation" a discovery or common sense?

It was not until the emergence of the modern evolutionary synthesis from the 1930s to the 1950s that a broad consensus developed that natural selection was the basic mechanism of evolution. Darwin was the pioneer.

I've read that Arab philosophers were interested and discussed ideas very similar to natural selection. BUT they excluded humans from this process. Nonetheless they thought other animals may have arisen in some evolutionary-like manner.

I'd love to know more about these ideas. Any good books?

In 1831, Darwin began a scientific voyage lasting 5 years. On the voyage, Darwin read Lyell's 'Principles of Geology' which suggested that the fossils found in rocks were actually evidence of animals that had lived many thousands or millions of years ago.

Darwin worked on his theory for 20 years. After learning that another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, had developed similar ideas, the two made a joint announcement of their discovery in 1858. In 1859 Darwin published 'On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'.

Sure, but you are talking about natural selection as a basic mechanism of evolution- the link between natural selection and evolution is not common sense. But natural selection as process itself is common sense.

Peace be unto you

I think it is common sense, the difference is we don't accept it easily so people need to come and remind us- that is what the prophet does.

Peace be unto you

So it's basically nonsense. So people tend to forget, and someone reminds them the nonsense, then people forget about it again.

I'll put one on my car!

brilliant.


ie...... most don't lie about where the information came; they just reporting what they learned.

No.

you just opened up an underlying theme i had not seen before in this context (natural selection)

in which that definition from wiki, is sharing quite and opposition to random mutation but the combined words "natural selection" make it seem as if it is

here is the contrast

in which the change, can be environmentally caused

the idea of random is believed, as the 'cause' is unknown......

i would Love to see them all over the place


ie... Darwin ...........won!