Science is wonderful, and Darwin was not only brilliant, but was diligent and hardworking and courageous in offering a valid theory in which was bound to subject him to scathing criticism from the obvious sources.
Let’s celebrate Darwin, and every other brave and insightful scientist, but I wouldn’t celebrate natural selection as such. Natural selection itself is an alien god. As Darwin said:
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars or that a cat should play with mice.
Science is wonderful, and Darwin was not only brilliant, but was diligent and hardworking and courageous in offering a valid theory in which was bound to subject him to scathing criticism from the obvious sources.
Let’s celebrate Darwin, and every other brave and insightful scientist, but I wouldn’t celebrate natural selection as such. Natural selection itself is an alien god. As Darwin said:
Oh that would be central to the event. Don’t worry.