Trying to be fair to Wallace is part of the deception.

These attempts to be fair to Wallace are completely tiresome. They are part
of the deceptionl.
To say that Darwin had more evidence than Wallace is pure bullshit. Darwin
didn’t have the right theory, and plagiarized it from Wallace.
Check out Roy Davies’ The Darwin Conspiracy.


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In a message dated 6/29/2009 12:42:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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(http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31597263/ns/technology_and_science-science//)

Forgotten evolutionist rediscovered at last
Darwin's contemporary, Alfred Russel Wallace, gets his due after 150 years

SANTUBONG, Malaysia - As he trudges past chest-high ferns and butterflies
the size of saucers, George Beccaloni scours a jungle hilltop overlooking
the South China Sea for signs of a long-forgotten Victorian-era scientist.

He finds what he's looking for: an abandoned, two-story guest house, its
doors missing and ceiling caved in.

"Excellent. This is the actual spot," he yells.

It is on this site, in a long-gone thatched hut, that Alfred Russel
Wallace is believed to have spent weeks in 1855 writing a seminal paper on the
theory of evolution. Yet he is largely unknown outside scientific circles
today, overshadowed by Charles Darwin, whom most people credit as the father
of a theory that explains the origins of life through how plants and animals
evolve.

...

Also controversial is Wallace's support of spiritualism, a popular
movement that held seances and believed spirits of the dead can communicate
with
the living. He upset Darwin and damaged his scientific reputation by arguing
that the development of the human mind and some bodily attributes were
guided by spiritual beings rather than natural selection, Beccaloni
acknowledged.

That has turned Wallace into an unlikely hero among some Christian
conservatives opposed to the teaching of evolution. He is also used to support
intelligent design, the theory that certain features of life forms are so
complex that they must have originated from a higher power.

Michael Flannery, the author of the new book "Alfred Russel Wallace's
Theory of Intelligent Evolution," argues that Wallace was in many ways "the
seminal figure in what we consider the intelligent design movement." The
Seattle-based Discovery Institute, the main supporter of the theory, cites
Wallace in its promotional material.

Beccaloni groans when the talk turns to Wallace's spiritualism, noting
that he wasn't even a Christian. Christian groups are "grasping at straws," he
said, and other academics are using spiritualism to diminish his
scientific importance. Beccaloni is trying to keep the focus on his earlier
scientific discoveries.


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