Darwinism Denies Inwardness

by Asa Boxer

Darwin’s Tree of Life from The Origin of Species 1859.

Significantly, and surprising to many, the idea of evolution of species was not Darwin’s own, nor was the idea of natural selection. Darwin didn’t even come up with the idea that we might use the fossil record to trace evolutionary development. To put Darwin into proper perspective, he ought to be credited with four things: (a) the specific tracing of adaptation in a finch from the Galapagos Islands; (b) the frameshifting insight of evolutionary mechanisms including chance mutations alongside the various pressures of natural and sexual selection; (c) the notion that evolution isn’t a linear ladder, but a bushy complex of offshoots; and (d) the proposition that homo sapiens and the primates branched off from a common ancestor.

Unfortunately his implicit claims for a purely mechanical accidentalist take on evolution have brought about a false and frankly destructive cultural frameshift. His grand theory is misframed as having a metaph…