Darwin was interested in adaptation and natural selection...not the origins of life.
Exactly. And people should note that he was born a good 150 years BEFORE dna was even discovered.
So if evolution is happening, and the cause is mutations/changes to the DNA that get passed on, don’t even DARE blaming Darwin for it.
I’ve read both “Origin of the Species” and “The Voyage of the Beagle”. He was a naturalist and social observer.
A damn good one.
Thank you...thank you for the one coherent and sympathetic view. Many blame him for everything from the potato blight to Naziism. He was a naturalist pure and simple whose great powers of observation gave us the foundation for biological evolution. (Which he shares with Alfred Russel Wallace)