Does every anti-evolution post here have to have the word "lie" in it? This is getting a bit tiresome. What's wrong with something like "neo-Darwinism," so people can see what this thread is actually about?
Scientists agreed that evolution had happened, but they were not agreed on exactly how. What's more, there were other branches of science that had developed independently of evolution, and they needed to take it into consideration. This is actually good science and it still happens today. If a theory fits the evidence well and has been tested successfully, then other ideas need to be adjusted in light of that. No scientist should ever be 100% certain that they are right, or be unwilling to alter their ideas when new evidence comes to light.
Yes, some ideas were left behind because the general agreement was that they were probably wrong. I've already said that there's a possible case for resurrecting Lamarckism. I also think that maybe natural selection and genetic determinism have more of a central role in neo-Darwinism than they should. Neo-Darwinism isn't completely agreed upon by everyone. Gould was not well pleased that Dawkins, a fervent neo-Darwinist, wanted to push the idea of punctuated equilibrium into a corner and more or less forget about it.
This is science in action. Evolution is not in dispute here, but scientists aren't always in agreement about its mechanisms. Do you see anything that was "left behind" that you think should not have been? Please make sure you give evidence as to why it should play a significant role in evolutionist ideas, when it was originally decided that it didn't fit.
I expect some will be surprised to find that Genetics was the antithesis of Darwinism.
Yes, especially since nothing you have said or linked to here gives any evidence for this. Please explain.
Try to see what Darwinism lost in the compromise and what Genetics lost.
I don't see any huge problems, though if you do it would be helpful if you could elucidate.
By the way, you know that there are geneticists and molecular biologists on EvC, who are in a better position to discuss this with you. There is a dedicated area of that forum for these kinds of subjects. Why didn't you propose this topic there, if you're really interested in learning about it, or posing questions to people who have the actual knowledge at their fingertips?
