Darwin's Three Mistakes
Last year ( The SOR Bulletin , 2:2 June 1986) we reported on an
article by Kenneth Hsu , "Darwin's three mistakes," Geology 14: 532-
534, June 1986. In that article, Hsu (Geological Institute, ETH,
Zurich) argued that Darwin badly misread the record of the history
of life. Hsu's blunt views have not gone unchallenged. A series of
comments and responses have appeared in Geology : Vol. 15: 175-178,
February 1987, and vol. 15: 375-377, April 1987. In each of these
exchanges, Hsu defends his position with vigor, and even concludes
on exchange with the following:
Facing the bias and obstinacy of Darwinists, I feel almost
tempted to join my colleague, Paul Feyerabend...who proposed to
lead "three cheers to the fundamentalists in California who
succeeded in having a dogmatic formulation of the theory of
evolution removed from the text books and an account of Genesis
included." (p. 178)