Sheesh, I just want to go back in time and kill that Darwin freak before he wrote that book
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There was another, who published similar findings within weeks of Darwin. History has largely forgotten him in favour of Darwin.
Yeah, to add to what Whitewater said, Darwin published because someone else (Alfred Russel Wallace) sent him a paper to peer-review that described evolution (he had not wanted to publish his evolution findings because of the controversy, but didn't want someone else stealing his discovery). So if you went back in time and killed Darwin, someone else would have published at about the same time. You cannot suppress an idea by killing people.
"You can put a bullet in my head/but you can't kill a word I've said/Viva! Revolution"
I don't beleive in Darwinism but i'm glad the idea has been made known, for we grow on ideas contrary to our own, it allows us to think in other ways. Adn i think evolution, at least as a concept is pretty simple, and should of been around easily a century before darwin said anything about it, and you know what it probably was, just got lost somehow..
Ok, in that case forget it. Without him, there wouldn´t be a computer where you can post your stupidity, to begin with. And Einstein wouldn´t have been able to formulate his theory, that explains why that maschine will never exist.
This is "Fundieism" in a nutshell.
Killing the author would not have killed the idea. Christianity should have taught you that, my friend.You can't kill an idea.
Sheesh, I just want to go back in time and kill that Jesus Christ before he started that religion. OMG, what have I done?! His followers started up an even worse one after he died. Can someone please go back and rescue him from the Cross? My time machine is broken.
I didn't think that the world would have been a worse place without the Jesus religion. Really, I didn't. But his followers and their followers really messed it up. Sorry about that.
Burning down the libraries again?
Sorry, Bowler. Killing Darwin would not have stopped the theory of evolution. The truth cannot be suppressed by killing people.
@ billybilton: Evolution was around long before Darwin. His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, was an evolutionist. Darwin was simply the first to find a viable explanation as to how it worked. Lamarki tried before Darwin, but his theory has been long since disproved.
And in "Futurama" style, while you're there, you'll kill your grandfather and impregnate your grandmother, which will explain a lot of your grotesque developmental problems.
Good thing that destroying the book would make its arguments invalid, eh? Oh, wait - it wouldn't. Guess you'd better scrap the time machine idea and think of something else.
EDIT: Damn, father heathen beat me to it, and did it better too.
Hello,
if it would be viable to go back and kill this "Darwin Freak", why is it that this "Darwin Freak"-memories and books are still around? I mean, if somebody finds a way to go back in time and someone uses this way to go back and kill him there would be none reminiscence of him, don't you think so?
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"Sheesh, I just want to go back in time and kill that Darwin freak before he wrote that book"
Yes, that's nice dear (*pats bowler4ever on head *). Now you go back to your 2600 console & homebrew 'Look! I can Kill Heathens Too!' game dear, the adults are talking. And if you're extra good, I'll give you a second helping of paste whilst you put on your 'Rugby Helmet', before the Short Bus arrives. Oh, and here's your pocket money:
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The concept of descent with modification was already known then. Other naturalists would have began studying it, even if Charles Darwin had never been born.
And even if no one else had at that time, someone would have done it after Gregor Mendel started messing with pea plant genetics. Link.
In other words, you would have delayed it 50 years at most, perhaps less. Unless you're planning to use your magical time machine to slaughter every last biologist and geneticist who ever lived.
“Sheesh,”
"I just want to go back in time and kill that Darwin freak before he wrote that book”
I could see this being a Twilight Zone episode.
Imagine, if you will, a creationist who is suddenly granted the power to change history…[/Rod Serling voiceover]
Of course the twist is that after he returns to the present and finds that Wallace discovered evolution, he goes back again to kill him too, and as he keeps killing scientists he just finds out that some other scientist discovered the same things, until he accidentally kills one of his own ancestors and vanishes
And thus Mr. Bowler learned, albeit too late, that shooting the messenger will not erase the message… but it may erase other things in… The Twilight Zone[/Rod Serling voiceover]
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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