“I was quoting the master himself, Charles Darwin.”
It’s commonly believed that Darwin discovered the “law” of evolution. He did not. Evolution predates Darwin by thousands of years.
Contemporary anthropologist Henry Fairfield Osborn, longtime director of the American Museum of Natural History traced evolution to ancient Greece. Osborn said:
“When I began the search for (the roots of) evolutionary theory...I was led back to the Greek natural philosophers and I was astonished to find how many of the pronounced and basic features of the Darwinian theory were anticipated...as far back as the seventh century B.C.” (The Long War Against God, Henry Morris,p. 216)
Greece inherited its evolutionary cosmogony from ancient Babylonia and Egypt. This means that in light of the fact that Darwinism hales from Greece and Greeces cosmogony hales from Babylonia, modern evolutionary naturalists have been teaching a revamped, revised version of ancient Greek and Babylonian cosmogony.
Thus “modern” evolution evolved from the Babylonian/Egyptian spiritual concept that describes the transmigration of a divine spark or bit of soul over time and in many different bodies to a mechanism that causes life to incrementally change over time in many different bodies.
In its spiritual pantheist conception, everything is god while in its Darwinian secular-materialist conception, nothing is God since He has been explained away. Each in its own way however, deifies man.
Page 298 of Jones’ book ("Darwin’s Ghost") states … “The Origin makes no mention of “evolution,” a word whose sense has gone full circle since it began. As Cicero so memorably put it: Quid poetarum evolution voluptatis affert” -- “What pleasure does the reading of the poets provide!” The word was first used in biology to describe the changes in shape of an embryo as it developed. Not until much later did “evolution” begin to suggest the gradual transformation of one form into another.”
I could go on, but ….