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"I wonder what Darwin meant by his line "Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history" in "Origin of Species" if he didn't mean to include man as "a species" in his title? LOL..."

Looks like Darwin knew he was using the words "race" and "species" inclusive of man in "Origin." Now, if his followers would just admit that.

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Looks like Darwin knew he was using the words "race" and "species" inclusive of man in "Origin." Now, if his followers would just admit that.

I won't hold my breath.

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"To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree." -Charles Darwin, "Origin of Species, pg.

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"But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record." -Charles Darwin "Origin of Species, pg. 280

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"Nature may almost be said to have guarded against the frequent discovery of her transitional or linking forms." - Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, p.292

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"When we descend to details, we can prove that no one species has changed (i.e. we cannot prove that a single species has changed): nor can we prove that the supposed changes are beneficial, which is the groundwork of the theory. Nor can we explain why some species have changed and others have not." - Charles Darwin, Letter to G. Bentham, May 22, 1863

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"Last night Dicey and Litchfield were talking about J. Stuart Mill's never expressing his religious convictions, as he was urged to do so by his father. Both agreed strongly that if he had done so, he would never have influenced the present age in the manner in which he has done. His books would not have been text books at Oxford, to take a weaker instance. Lyell is most firmly convinced that he has shaken the faith in the Deluge far more efficiently by never having said a word against the Bible, than if he had acted otherwise." - Letter to George Darwin, October 1873

"I have lately read Morley's Life of Voltaire and he insists strongly that direct attacks on Christianity (even when written with the wonderful force and vigor of Voltaire) produce little permanent effect: real good seems only to follow the slow and silent side attacks." - Charles Darwin, Letter to George Darwin, October 1873