What would you ask Charles Darwin?

Question

If Charles Darwin was still alive today or if you lived in the time he did what questions would you ask him?Besides evolution.AS if you were interviewing him.

Answer 1

Right now, I'd ask him for some matches... darn lighter!

Answer 2

about the internal debates he took with himself, that made him wait more than twenty years to have the gall to challenge society, the sufferings he faced from almost everyone. it must take a real dedication to science to know the effects of publication and still do it. Men of science always have to, we/they did it to Galileo and we/they still do it to the environmentalists, the nuclear scientists, and others whose subjects of study are frowned upon, inconvenient, or opposed to popular belief.

In any case, Darwin is slowly but surely being vindicated. Lamarcke hasn't been and he has suffered the reverse of Darwin's fate: initially accepted but disproved over the centuries. Now all his place in common history amounts to is a single line or paragraph detailing his wrong assumptions: a caricature of a person who stands for "the wrong scientist," same as Brutus for most people stand as "traitor." What a sad thing to be remembered for. Nobody bothers to lament Lamarcke, but as a scientist, he already stands above those who merely claim superiority over him for not having such a wrong idea..

That was out-of-topic, sorry, but I just had to get it through. Bear with me.

Answer 3

I would ask him if he agreed that evolution AND God could both be a part in history.

Answer 4

I would ask him. What made him think a botanist / profilier had the right to assert that mankind naturally had a descendant relationship with primates, without any proof or natural linkages. My next question would have been was he , himself an atheist.

Answer 5

i,d ask him,Have you ever had a homosexual experience?

Answer 6

Well, as a working biologist, I would be interested in how he came up with his mistaken notion of pangenisis.

Answer 7

I'd ask to see his victory dance, because from the time of his death until the 1950s, many of his views were dismissed, but eventually acknowledged.

E.g. humans evolved in Africa and are most closely related to gorillas and chimpanzees.

Answer 8

I would ask him how he felt about being one of the most important men in the history of science and how he felt about his work eventually leading to the decoding of the human genome.