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**thomaskkk** · 01-09-2008, 04:49 AM

Originally posted by VetLegion
I've been thinking about evolution a lot lately and I can't decide about one thing: how "difficult" was Darwin's discovery? If he had not made it, would someone else have made it 20, 30, 50 years later? The idea of evolution goes back as far as Empedocles. The idea that there were strctured family trees of living things goes back as far as Aristotle. The idea that there had to be some commonality among different living things comes from that. Evolution is simply one explanation of this division of life into kinds. Aristotle had no evidence for evolution, so he believed in a static structure theory.

Darwin simply did all the hard work necessary to justify believing in evolution. As mentioned, that Wallace guy was doing it at the same time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russell_Wallace

Evolution was inevitable, since it is obviously the best explanation.

01-09-2008, 04:49 AM	#4
thomaskkk Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 518 Senior Member	Originally posted by VetLegion I've been thinking about evolution a lot lately and I can't decide about one thing: how "difficult" was Darwin's discovery? If he had not made it, would someone else have made it 20, 30, 50 years later? The idea of evolution goes back as far as Empedocles. The idea that there were strctured family trees of living things goes back as far as Aristotle. The idea that there had to be some commonality among different living things comes from that. Evolution is simply one explanation of this division of life into kinds. Aristotle had no evidence for evolution, so he believed in a static structure theory. Darwin simply did all the hard work necessary to justify believing in evolution. As mentioned, that Wallace guy was doing it at the same time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Russell_Wallace Evolution was inevitable, since it is obviously the best explanation.
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