Darwin was born two hundred years ago this month. A serious and decent man, Darwin’s name has become connected with modern Darwinism. Today the Theory of Evolution of Species by Natural Selection has been mystically elevated from a “Theory” into a “Law,” which it is not. As a working theory, evolution by natural selection serves an important scientific purpose. The Ptolemaic Theory of the revolution of heavenly bodies around the Earth also served an important scientific purpose. Both, at the time these theories were proposed, did a fairly good job of explaining how nature works.
