They think that if he had the science we have now, he wouldn't have gone the way he did. But the truth is far from it. For example, after the first edition of Origin of Species appeared in 1859, Darwin sealed the later editions with a statement that life...
Some People Think Well of Darwin!
They think that if he knew what we have now, he wouldn't have gone the way he did, but the truth is far from it.
For example, after the first edition of Origin of Species appeared in 1859, Darwin concluded later editions with the statement that life "originally breathed the soul into it in several forms or a single form." A few years later, Darwin wrote to his friend (Joseph Hooker): "I have long regretted submitting to public opinion" using the religious term, while what he actually meant "came about by completely unknown processes."[1]
In 1871 Darwin wrote to Hooker again, summarizing his true idea of the origin of life: "If (and what if) we were able to combine in a small warm pool all kinds of ammonia, phosphorous salts, light, heat, and electric charge, until the protein complex was chemically formed and ready to withstand many complex changes..."
Darwin clearly believed that the first cells were not created there, and believed that they were formed through some physical process, a process involving the spontaneous self-assembly of various chemicals.
Darwin’s idea was later developed and tested in the Yuri-Miller experiment, but the experiment was unable to produce amino acids from a realistic mixture of gases that were supposed to exist in Earth’s initial atmosphere. Even if we skipped insisting that the gases should be similar to Earth’s initial atmosphere, the resulting mixture contained not only amino acids, but also substances that could stop the formation of life; specifically cyanide and methane (formaldehyde) cells, although they could be used by a professional.
- Charles R. Darwin, Letter to J. D. Hooker, March 29, 1863, in The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, ed. Francis Darwin (London: John Murray, 1887), III:18.
- Charles R. Darwin, Letter to J. D. Hooker, February 1, 1871.
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