[aruanan]

Darwinists don’t know their own history. Sad panda is sad. :(

I went to a school once that was able to buy the entire library of a very old school. It had many first editions of the whole panoply of evolutionary writers of the 18th century. It was a real hoot to read some of those and to see them say exactly what neo-Darwinists now claim the old-time Darwinists never said and had been falsely attributed to them by opponents of Darwinian evolution.

[BenKenobi]

First year history of science class. Ought to be required reading for everyone.

We read the original Origin of Species and the Descent of Man. History of Science is a fascinating discipline, and I ended up switching over. I loved examining the process by how scientists made the discoveries that they did.

That other scientists and scientists in general are unaware of this process shows their lack of understanding of the scientific method.

Lamarckian descent is interesting to say the least.

[stormer]

That must have been quite a school! It had first editions of the whole panoply of evolutionary writers who apparently devised the theory of evolution an entire century before Darwin and Wallace. It’s a shame you never attempted to read some of them - of course, they were do doubt over your head...

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

I went to a school once that was able to buy the entire library of a very old school. It had many first editions of the whole panoply of evolutionary writers of the 18th century. It was a real hoot to read some of those and to see them say exactly what neo-Darwinists now claim the old-time Darwinists never said and had been falsely attributed to them by opponents of Darwinian evolution.

Yes, old evolution books reveal a lot! You can get tons of them at www.archive.org. Read Osborn's crazy abiogenesis theories, Boelsche's german evolution book that influenced the Nazis, tons of stuff on eugenics, "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny", Piltdown man, monistic philosophy, "orthogenesis", nutball theories of heredity, Haldane's defense of Lysenko, life from crystals... Haeckel's Riddle... So much good stuff! Here and here and here.