[gore3000]

Darwin's "Origin of the Species" was published in 1859.

Gobineau's "The Inequality of Human Races" was published in 1853.

Sounds like Darwin was influenced by Gobineau!

[ALS]

sure does

more evidence towards the obvious

[CobaltBlue]

LOL! Have to get up mighty early to get by you, mmm mmm mmm, yeah, that's fer sure. Or, maybe you're just pulling this argument out of your nether regions?

You wouldn't lie for Jesus, would you, boy?

[Stultis]

Darwin's "Origin of the Species" was published in 1859.

Gobineau's "The Inequality of Human Races" was published in 1853.

Sounds like Darwin was influenced by Gobineau!

...and ALS adds, in the next message:

sure does

more evidence towards the obvious

This is really a most fascinating little revelation of what passes for "evidence" in the mind of the creationist: an off-the-cuff, gratuitous and wrong assumption.

I don't suppose either of you thought to search the full-text, online editions of Darwin's works for the word "Gobineau"?

Naw, that would violate the whole spirit of creationism.

For the rest of you, who might be interested in more conventional forms of evidence, Gobineau (I actually searched for "Gobin" in case of misspelling) is not mentioned in either The Origin of Species (1st or 6th edition) or The Descent of Man. It might be interesting to check the volumes of letters as well, although Darwin had no discernable interest in crank science so I doubt it will turn up.