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Post-Darwinist: Who Invented the term "Darwinist?"

Last December I addressed the point that "Darwinists" are wrong to allege that ID-proponents invented terms such as "Darwinist" or "Darwinism." (See Busting Another Darwinist Myth: We’d love to take credit for "Darwinism," but we can't.) This post was prompted after E.O. Wilson said in Newsweek that "[s]cientists ... don’t call it Darwinism," implying that if you use the term "Darwinism" then you aren't a scientist. But on Sunday, Denyse O'Leary posted an excellent article documenting multiple usages of the term "Darwinist" or "Darwinism" by, well, leading Darwinist scientists like Richard Dawkins, Ernst Mayr, and H. Allen Orr. See Darwinism/Darwinist: Now a term of reproach? at Post-Darwinist blog for the full article!

http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2006/08/darwinismdarwinist-now-term-of.html

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