Hello all,
I'm hoping someone can help with this one.
Started a lecture today in Intro Psych on Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioural Genetics by introducing and discussing Darwin's theory of evolution. It certainly made for some interesting class discussion, in that, there are a handful of students who openly admit they do not believe it, and even one student has offered to bring in a Christian Science publication, "Creation" or something for me to read!
Anyway, another student asked me after class if it is true that Darwin later in life renounced his entire theory. She had heard this somewhere. I have not heard it, and don't anything about it. Is is true, false, some combination?
Thanks for all and any help!
Mike Lee, MA Department of Psychology University of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB Canada
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It's a rumor. Darwin never renounced his own "theory." And the "theory" he espoused, by the way, (along with Alfred Wallace) was not of evolution--that theory had been around for quite a while (Darwin's own granddad Erasmus Darwin was a fervent evolutionist). What Darwin and Wallace gave to science was a mechanism by which gradual change over time could take place. That mechanism was natural selection. THAT (the process of natural selection) was the big contribution that Darwin made (not counting his outstanding work as a naturalist).
I'd ask my students to explain to me how we got so many different breeds of dogs in the short period of time that dogs have been domesticated, if it is true that organisms do not change over time........(which is all that evolution asserts).
But all that aside--you don't have to "believe" what others believe in order to appreciate and understand those beliefs, and understand how the holding of those beliefs influences the thoughts and work of the believers.....
--Kathy Morgan Wheaton College Norton, MA
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