[allmendream]

Darwin’s “followers” did not accept that Lamarck’s notion of inheritance of acquired characteristics was true, they disproved it. Biologists accepted Weisman’s work on cells, and established that heredity was through germ line cells not somatic cells, and embraced his refutation of any discernible Lamarkian evolutionary mechanism. Neither was ignorance of Mendel’s work accepted as dogma, but Biologists wanted to know what the hereditary material was and how it did it. So what exactly did Darwin’s “followers” accept as dogma again?

[RobbyS]

For a whole generation his followers did accept Lamarck. It wasn’t until the turn of the century that they took Weisman seriously and then because they had to deal with Mendel’s findings. My point again: scholars can be as dogmatic as anyone else. Like the rest of us, they die in their sins.