Why I dislike the expression Darwinism
Political feuds have the ability to morph you into the caricature your opponents draw of you.
Natural selection is the means by which the human species came about, but I don't like calling this Darwinism, for two reasons. The first one is that Darwin's theory of natural selection had its flaws: he thought it was a continuous matter, that offspring was the average of its parents rather than a mix of indivisible genes (curiously enough, Mendel who did discover that there are discrete traits, was not a Darwinist). Secondly, most importantly, is that it does make the whole enterprise feel a bit like religion where Darwin was the prophet.
If Darwin had been struck by a tree early in his life, we'd still think that natural selection is true (in fact, we'd have found out about it at more or less the same time, as Wallace was about to scoop Darwin and forced him to rush to print his book).
This is also why I have absolutely no interest in his views on religion.
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I was reminded of this when I recently read the allegations that Darwin plagiarized his ideas. Not from Wallace, but from some obscure Scotsman.
Patrick Matthew was a rich Scotsman who basically published the Theory of Evolution 30 years before Darwin, but nobody paid attention to him as he published in a low impact-factor journal [yeah, not really, but the 1800s equivalent of a low-impact journal: a book on Naval Timber].
Perhaps Patrick Matthew should be better known and Darwin a footnote. But because "we" have accepted the term "Darwinism" to refer to natural selection, there is more resistance to throwing Darwin out of the pedestal than there should be.