Charles Darwin, Climate Change Denier
Here’s a vocabulary lesson: uniformitarianism, catastrophism, received orthodoxy, the channeled scablands. Believe it or not, the ideas behind these words can help us to understand our modern world. Some of the worst arguments in the news should be explained, and these words can do that. Charles Darwin is the originator of the theory of evolution, with his book, “The Origin of the Species.” Darwin is described as a scientist, but his education, at Cambridge University, was preparing to become a minister in the Church of England. Today, this would be like an education in a Bible College, or a Seminary. He wasn’t really educated as a scientist. Darwin gave us a universe without God, where life originated from natural forces, and then evolved into the life forms that we have now, including us. Darwin’s ideas have become received orthodoxy. To most scientists, they are so obviously true that they don’t need to be proven, they must be believed. They are beyond debate, and people, like creationists, who believe God is the creator, are dangerous lunatics. …