Disowning Darwin

Gordon Simons (simons@stat.unc.edu)
Sun, 23 Jul 1995 21:10:24 -0400 (EDT)

Stephen Jones states (among other things):

"If evolutionists completely disowned Darwin, then "Christians" would
stop attacking aspects of his thought that are still held by evolutionists
today."

While some Christians might find this attractive, I believe this is an
unreasonable expectation: To explain my point, consider Newton, whose
views on mechanics have been superseded by Einstein's. Newton had it
wrong. But we don't find physicists "disowning" Newton. Why is this?
Because they still see a great deal of value in what Newton had to say.
Indeed, Newtonian mechanics is still taught today.

Gordie