At 3:45 PM -0400 4/9/07, Louis Schmier wrote:
Allen, wouldn't you say that the likes of Hutton, Lyell, Buffon,
Lamarck, and Darwin
challenged the prevailing view of Aristotelian spontaneous
generation? And the
theological implications of that challenge was that life, like the
earth, evolved through
natural processes rather than through the then universally accepted biblical,
"history-less," miraculous, divine intervention of Genesis?
Prevailing yes; universal no.
See: Erasmus Darwin.
The innovation of Darwin and his colleagues was the mechanism of
evolution (natural selection in the case of Darwin and Wallace (a
major omission)); not evolution itself.
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