There were no darwinists - as far as I know - in 1799. Strange enough nobody noticed Natural selection before Darwin did so. In that time math galloped - Fourier published his complicated The Analytical Theory of Heat in 1822 - using so complicated higher math that even nowadays students at Uni are fired not understanding it.
The reason of motion of material bodies (gravity and impetus) was known even by Giordano Bruno in 17 century (btw one darwinist here ridiculed Bruno and called him religious freak or something very similar) :
people also "worshipped satan" long before darwin existed, so it doesn't really follow that just because people have made other discoveries that someone should have noticed natural selection earlier. if it's all satan's lies, why didn't
he come up with it sooner?
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