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De Veries and Bateson are as irrelevant to evolution as animism is to ID. Labeling evolutionary science “Darwinism” is an attempt to discredit it through its first 19th century proponent.

I picked De Veries (1906) and Bateson (1922) because they are mentioned by Coyne and Orr in their introduction to Speciation. Is there something that troubles you about Darwin? Or his idea of natural selection? (It was his idea, wasn't it?)

ML/NJ

"Is there something that troubles you about Darwin? Or his idea of natural selection? (It was his idea, wasn't it?)"

Darwin is to evolution as the Write brothers were to flight. Darwin was the first to discover and integrate principles to create a reasonable evolutionary model.

If I had a problem with opponents of flight trying to rename aeronautics “Writeism” so that they could imply that it was just as subjectively faith based as their alternative, it wouldn’t be because Write “troubles” me.

Those kind of tactics are evidence that ID belongs in social studies, not science.