Interestingly enough, some creationists are contending that Darwin did not plagiarize Wallace or other contemporary scientists. Todd Wood in Natural Selection—Theory or Reality?, and in a yet to be published Answers Research Journal article, “There Is No Darwin Conspiracy,” dismisses all such accusations against Darwin.
Hhmmm…
Origin of Darwin’s theory in dispute
by Jack Grimston
The Australian (Australia), p. 7.
29 December 29, 2008
AS the scientific world prepares to mark Charles Darwin’s bicentenary, the author of On the Origin of Species is facing accusations of plagiarism and unjustly claiming credit as the father of evolutionary theory.
One group of critics has commissioned computer experts with specialised anti-plagiarism software to scour Darwin’s book, published in 1859, for similarities to a paper released the year before by Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who worked for eight years in what he termed the Malay Archipelago — primarily Indonesia and Malaysia.
Initial indications are that the analysis will show some of the most important ideas in On the Origin of Species were taken from Wallace — in particular the idea that species with variations helping them to survive would thrive and pass on these features to their offspring.
