I finished reading On the Origin of Species by Charles

Posted on: August 23, 2018 at 13:40:55 CT

Darwin.

a few general observations:

I was surprised at how much of it was about plants as my expectation was it would be about just animals.

I was surprised at how much of it was about domeesticated
plants and animals.

I was surprised at how little of it was about the Galapagos Islands. Very very little- maybe 5 or six pages is it even mentioned and only in one of the two chapters about geographical distribution.

It specifically mentions an ultimate creator and even expresses surprise that any religious person would be
opposed to evolution on religious grounds (I read the
latest edition which addresses many of the points that had been raised against it).

I now fully understand why republigistians deny
evolution. There is no way that even one in a million
have read the book and even fewer that could understand it. Someone like Spanky would be hard pressed to read and understand even a single page of it- and I mean that quite literally. It supposes a very broad understanding of biology (both zoology and botany) along with a broad understanding of taxonomy. Coupled with a general vocabulary well beyond most republigistians.

I feel sorry for our republigistian friends so closed off from opportunities to learn and experience things
through an accumulation of knowledge.

Anyway its a very sound argument even if it contains some things PC liberals would find objectionable- like the use of the word savage for more primitive cultures.
The comparison of the mating of alligators to the whooping of Indians I found particularly funny.

It also had some silly ideas such as thinking if someone
could figure out why elephants don't breed in captivity
(they didn't at that time) it could be figured out
why some hybrids are sterile.

I highly recommend anyone interested in science to read it- so republigistians should not bother.