I've had a lifetime of reading and experiences to rely on when I contemplate scientific notions. I have also taken a number of University Courses in the Math and Science areas, and I have never failed any School Course in my entire life.
Additionally, during the last three years I have achieved a relatively high GPA in my more than a few Biology and Chemistry Courses including microbiology. In fact I have never had a problem maintaining a minimum " cumme laude" recognition and that Astronomy "C" was an exception and the very reason that I mentioned it at all.
I took the Astronomy Course as a sort of lark when I was still a teenager, and I thought that it would have something to do with gazing through telescopes and such.
It was actually sort of a baptism by fire for me. It was my first real introduction to the Physical Sciences, as I was a High School dropout.
A dropout because I am one person who had a difficult childhood because I was a member of a seriously dysfunctional family and there were problems. But that is enough about my personal history.
I think that TOE is a joke when it comes to real Science. Darwin only published his first work because it was quite clear that he had contemporaries with similar studies and conclusions, and he simply needed to be first.
You keep posting your silly cranium sketches and assume away that the World is populated by a bunch of dopes who will bend knee at the altar of your infant religion that knows no God, no Creed, no Faith, and no Logic.
But please, just because from time to time I post silly things, and I am often in a pissy mood, do not assume that I am ignorant. Please?
You mistake his motivations. He waited as long as he did because he wanted the 'science' to be as complete and accurate as possible. He was convinced by friends (Lyell, a Geologist, and Hooker, a Botanist, both 'true' scientists) to publish his work when it became apparent that Wallace was about to publish similar, although more poorly researched, findings. Wallace and Darwin had their joint paper read at the Linnean Society in 1858, and published in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Zoology, the same year.
When Darwin first read Wallace's letter he was all for Wallace publishing his theory, but was still reticent to publish his own, in his own mind, incomplete theory. It took a lot of work for Lyell and Hooker to convince him to publish. That hardly sounds like somebody anxious for fame. It does sound like someone trying to make sure his science was 'right'
By the way, "Origin" was not his first publication.
Additionally, during the last three years I have achieved a relatively high GPA in my more than a few Biology and Chemistry Courses including microbiology. In fact I have never had a problem maintaining a minimum " cumme laude" recognition and that Astronomy "C" was an exception and the very reason that I mentioned it at all.
I took the Astronomy Course as a sort of lark when I was still a teenager, and I thought that it would have something to do with gazing through telescopes and such.
OK, any and all snide comments retracted.