And you, being pretty much wrong about everything, fit right in.
PS: Darwin was not a geologist.
“Darwin the Geologist
Léo F. Laporte, Earth Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064,
laporte@cats.ucsc.edu
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The irony of Darwin’s success as a geologist was that he had
little formal instruction in the subject. In his second year at the
University of Edinburgh—before he dropped out—he attended
the lectures of Robert Jameson, a champion of Werner’s Neptunist
theory, “but they were incredibly dull. The sole effect they
produced on me was the determination never as long as I lived to
read a book on Geology or in any way to study the science. Yet I
feel sure that I was prepared for a philosophical treatment of the
subject” (Autobiography, p. 52).
gsahist.org/gsat/gt96dec8_10.pdf”