[Troy McGreggor]

How did DNA fit into ‘Darwin’s complete works?’

Oops, he was right about everything except our most basic components. I’m sure the rest is equally valid.

[allmendream]

Darwin hardly had to identify the molecule of inheritance to know that traits were inherited, and that those traits that conferred an advantage would be inherited by a larger subset of the population than traits that conferred a disadvantage.

Darwin was not a prophet who had to be in touch with some absolute source of information, was infallible, and lived a life above reproach.

Darwin was a scientist. All he had to do was construct a theoretical framework that helped to explain and predict observances. He did. His theory was of so much use that it is still being used, mostly as he formulated it, some hundred and fifty years later.

[ElectricStrawberry]

Such a scientist you must be to mandate that someone know everything that will be discovered in the FUTURE....when offering up theories in the 1859 present. Must've missed that part of the Method.

Anyone that limits Darwin's actual works to "a few finches and their beak differences" doesn't know what they're talking about.