Re: [asa] Rejoinder 9C from Timaeus - to George Murphy

I am observing Timaeus's comments but I find this comment very disturbing;

 . "Obviously I am not going to hold any defender of Darwinism today to
Darwin’s gross errors about the mechanisms of inheritance. "

This type of comment makes me hostile to everything else Timaeus says as it
is simply an unreasonable criticism of Darwin.

Darwin had no clear idea of inheritance and tried to put forward "blending
inheritance " etc. To call these "gross errors" is rather like criticisng
Copernicus for his terrible gross error of circular orbits or Dana for not
accepting plate tectonics.

This is simply very bad judgement by Timaeus and designed to lose the
sympathy of others who might listen.

On his theology Timaeus seems to have diverged from orthodox theology, and
perhaps we should see how often this happens today by those who might want
to squeal liberal at George and myself. I dont have time to deal with it at
length but am concerned.

Michael

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Received on Fri Nov 14 15:25:50 2008