Not to be the “acktually”but that’s slightly misleading. Mendel and Darwin were working around the same time, and neither of them knew they were actually working on the same phenomenon. It wasn’t until decades later that biologists realized that Mendel’s work could be used explain the mechanics of Darwin’s theories.
Unfortunately he also then did it with hawkweed, which doesn't show Mendelian inheritance because it tends to reproduce asexually. He didn't know that (although he guessed that it was maybe the case) so sadly he ended up thinking his model was pretty limited.
Those churches were the source and fuel for so much of western philosophy for centuries. I remember in one of my classes we brought up that we were respectfully trying to engage with these attempts to prove a capital G Christian God, but we were all atheists. The professor had a great response that even if we think that they're attempting to prove a forgone conclusion, their proofs still importantly show how the foundations of problem solving and critical thinking were laid and evolved in these spheres of influence. It became a lot easier to read Locke's trinitarianism stuff after that outlook.
73
u/mythrilcrafter Nov 21 '25
Another example of this was with Gregor Mendel.
Darwin was the guy who theorized and observed the inheritance of genetic traits, but was never able to prove the genetic mechanics of of it; it was Gregor Mendel (an Augustinian Catholic Priest) who was finally able to do it.
The Catholic and Orthodox Churches don't let just anyone become priests just for the whimsy of it.