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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Modeling the origins of life: New evidence for an 'RNA World'
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On 2024-03-11 19:48:01 +0000, JTEM said:

>   Richmond wrote:
> 
>> Darwin didn't know about genes
> 
> Darwin was exposed to Mendel's work --THE Mendel, the
> guy who worked out inheritance -- and he was exposed
> to it BEFORE he completed his "Pangenesis" vomit.
> 
>> but then his book was published before
>> Mendel
> 
> Again, "Pangenesis."
> 
> Mendel worked it all out, Darwin was exposed to it AND
> THEN Darwin came out with the "Pangenesis" bullshit.
> 
>> As for rejecting
>> evolution, well the last line in 'The Origin of Species' is:
> 
> Omg. I'll repeat it:
> 
> Stalin. Mao.

I don't know about Mao, but Stalin had no problem with evolution. In 
1959 (100 years after The Origin; 150 years after Darwin's birth) I was 
at the same school as Darwin, many years after him. The Academy of 
Sciences of the USSR sent the school a commemorative medal. (Don't 
bother to tell me that Stalin had died by then: I know.) Interest in 
Darwinism was at low ebb in England in 1959, and the anniversaries 
passed almost unnoticed.

> They banned evolution. They saw is as Capitalist
> propaganda -- justification for everything from racism into
> classism and onto economic exploitation. So they banned
> evolution. And what they put in it's place was Darwin's ideas,
> what Darwin believed it.

Insofar as there is any sense at all in what you say, you're probably 
confusing Darwin with Mendel.
> 
> Yes, you're right, Darwin was a raging idiot who had no clue
> what he meant, much less what he was talking about. That was
> already established.


-- 
athel cb : Biochemical Evolution, Garland Science, 2016