No, science examines and rejects what is clearly wrong, thus gets it closer to right and then continuously corrects, the bible gets wrong in the first place, swallows it whole, and never fixes it's mistake.
Really? That will come as news to all of science. Please enlighten us.
Wrong and wrong-headed. Darwin could have easily demonstrated precedence, that is why today we refer to is as Darwinism and not Wallaceism. However, but Darwin humbly offered co-authorship which Wallace gladly accepted.
That's right. There was a copy of Mendel's paper in Darwin's study, but unfortunately Darwin did not speak German. But not knowing "how" it worked did not prevent his clearly elucidated "what" it was.
No, Origin of Species stands on its own and was amazingly correct in almost all aspects. Ten years later Darwin was working in the "how" and started off where knowledge was at the time, Conway Zirkle wrote: "The hypothesis of pangenesis is as old as the belief in the inheritance of acquired characters. It was endorsed by Hippocrates, Democritus, Galen (?), Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius, St. Isidore of Seville, Bartholomeus Anglicus, St. Albert the Great, St. Thomas of Aquinas, Peter of Crescentius (?), Paracelsus, Jerome Cardan, Levinus Lemnius, Venette, John Ray, Buffon, Bonnet, Maupertius, von Haller and Herbert Spencer."
So it was not something Darwin invented to "plug a hole." It was a logical progression of knowledge give where knowledge stood at the time. Too bad he didn't learn German instead. In any case, it was not until about 1900, when new researchers worked with Mendel’s discoveries, that natural selection and heredity were synthesized into the dominant paradigm of modern biology. There are those who would give Darwin credit that I do not feel he deserves, as in (wiki): "... by some accounts in modern interpretation, gemmules may be considered a prescient mix of DNA, RNA, proteins, prions, and other mobile elements that are heritable in a non-Mendelian manner at the molecular level."
Your attempt at falsifying Darwinism and at vilifying Darwin founders on the rocks of reality and instead provides an excellent example of science succeeds.
Trace your citation back ... you find a the root a piece in the Guardian and then New Scientist, which was roundly and justly criticized for sensationalism in pursuit of profit. Here's an example., Larry Moran, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto:
The cover is this week's issue of
New Scientist is sure to get your attention.
I happen to believe that the science of evolutionary biology has moved on since 1859, and I happen to be a proponent of evolutionary processes that Darwin new nothing about. Nevertheless, proclaiming that "Darwin was wrong" is a different story. That's an egregious example of journalistic hype and it's unacceptable in a magazine like
New Scientist.
The main article is
Why Darwin was wrong about the tree of life. The author is science journalist Graham Lawton.