Darwinism

One of the most memorable shots across the bow of theology (religious belief) was Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published in 1859. Remember, in misidentifying the Cosmic Womb, not discerning Potential as the eternal and key cosmic driver, and completely missing Birnbaum’s SuperEquation, Aristotle had incorrectly tied metaphysics in some ways to religion. Again, it is not that metaphysics has anything to do with theism/religion. It is just that Aristotle could not identify any other candidates for the prime mover of the universe such as Q4P. It would take perhaps a millennia post-Aristotle.

So, Darwin attempted to study evolution from a purely physical science perspective. What he came up with was natural selection as the driving force of evolution. Darwin posited that all species change over time in completely random ways. If those changes are useful then that member of the species has a survival advantage over those that don’t have that change.

On the surface, this seems reasonable. If a giraffe has a longer neck than the other giraffes, it will be able to get to more food so is more likely to survive and breed. But this glosses over a great many issues we’ll examine.

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