>>Unsportsmanlike; attacking faith is a sport for small boys.<<
You misunderstand my post, good sir. I attack someone who makes statements from abject ignorance. I would be a poor citizen indeed if I was not to attempt to school said child.
>>Darwin’s mistake was thinking that his theory would advance understanding of nature while ignoring the obvious fact that civilization would champion the weak, therby undermining his theory’s very foundation.<<
I think that Darwin didn’t consider the downstream result of the theory based on his observations. Good thing, else he would have edited himself pre-publication.
>>It still remains open for discussion as to whether evolution should be thought progressive or comsumptive.<<
Now that is a whole separate and undoubtedly interesting chain of thought.
Upon reflection, I have considered that Darwin was a man much ravaged by the conflict between his culture and his conclusions; heir to his piety but victim of his pride.
Careful not to offend in his earlier works and defiant in his newfound convictions in his last published papers.
Perhaps only history and society are the true judges of the difference between heroes and pariahs.
With time, new shoes become old friends.