Evolutionists Misunderstanding Gregor Mendel
A week or so back I was in town playing cards. Rusty Swingset (the foreman at the Darwin Ranch) joined us, and we commenced to discussing Gregor Mendel (peas be upon him). Rusty maintained the Darwin party line that Mendel was an evolutionist. When I showed evidence that he was a creationist, Rusty threw his cards on the table and stormed out.
Mendel got the bit in his teeth and made groundbreaking work when he initiated the field of genetics. He not only worked with peas, but also beans and some other critters. Unfortunately, much of his work was lost when his papers were burned after his death. The good news is that important work had been published and some of his letters survived.
Evolutionists try to make Mendel one of their own. Some of this is done through rewriting history. They also misrepresent what creationists actually believe and teach, and some of this is through ignorance because they accept what they have been told about biblical creationists instead of doing firsthand research.
It doesn't help matters that some of his work was a mite ambiguous regarding speciation (evolutionists claim he believed in the fixity of species), but he and his work were unfriendly to Darwin. As the science of genetics has progressed, it is an increasingly hostile witness to evolution.
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Evolutionists try to make Mendel one of their own. Some of this is done through rewriting history. They also misrepresent what creationists actually believe and teach, and some of this is through ignorance because they accept what they have been told about biblical creationists instead of doing firsthand research.
It doesn't help matters that some of his work was a mite ambiguous regarding speciation (evolutionists claim he believed in the fixity of species), but he and his work were unfriendly to Darwin. As the science of genetics has progressed, it is an increasingly hostile witness to evolution.
Gregor Mendel is perhaps one of the most well-known scientists in history. He has been lionized as the “Father of genetics” and a man so far ahead of his time that, though his work was lost for well over thirty years, it was rediscovered and became the foundation of modern genetics. He is also one of the few scientists whose views on biblical creation are fought over vigorously in secular journals. While the secularists argue fiercely over Mendel’s position on evolution, one thing is abundantly clear from reading his work: Mendel was no Darwinian.To read the rest, click on "Gregor Mendel: No Darwinian". If you've a mind to, you can read a biography at Creation-Evolution Headlines that provides additional information, and also has some of the science behind his work.