"It is true that Darwin's book was published in 1859, a mere century and a half ago, but the foundations date back father than that."
You're engaging in the historicism that was being mocked just upthread. Darwin apparently IS omnipresent and eternal, praise be! Either that, or you're seeking to diminish the importance of Darwin in authoring the theory of evolution, for the petty reason of covering for your own historical error.
You simply have your facts wrong. Darwin's theory was the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. The "evolution" part was well known pre-Darwin. It was the "natural selection" part was the new and important thing.
You're engaging in the historicism that was being mocked just upthread. Darwin apparently IS omnipresent and eternal, praise be! Either that, or you're seeking to diminish the importance of Darwin in authoring the theory of evolution, for the petty reason of covering for your own historical error.
I see that Newspeak continues to thrive in the Creationist community.
The only error was yours, and as I said before if you think that engaging in puerile semantic games will somehow cause people to overlook your series of factual errors, misstatements and flat-out ignorance, then you have a very low opinion of FReepers.