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Posted by ohyes on July 2, 2009, 3:05 pm, in reply to "Re: Reading the tea leaves again in Time's cup."
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The weird thing about that is that Darwin kept pushing the time needed back.
Interesting because you're right, there isn't a good reason to think Darwin understood the mechanisms behind evolution. While he was contemporaneous with Mendel there is no evidence the two collaborated.
Still it is of interest, Darwin intuited quite a bit so it is interesting to review his guesses at the age of the earth.
As for Freudians and Marxists, I couldn't comment. Many theories are explanatory for the moment they are proposed but wholly unsatisfying in the long run.
I would argue that Freud, and to a greater Marx were misguided. Oddly, while the theories of Marx and Freud have been widely discredited the theory of evolution, which predated both Marx and Freud is still around.
The conclusion that Darwin got it right while other grandiose theories missed the mark is not out of the realm of plausibility. The claim to universality is no guarantee of correctness but the notion that any far reaching theory is automatically flawed is also a fools belief. You like the scanners at the grocery store, yes?
The fact that the scanners work indicates a very old age for the earth.
As for those that are wrong falling on their swords I think that is a fool's hope. People aren't merely computational entities parsing the data for the best choice. The adherents of any particular theory have emotion built in to their beliefs.
The way science changes doesn't revolve around people getting convinced, cause you can't change people's minds, it revolves around the old scientists cricking off.
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