Don't blame Malthus for evolution!

In An Essay on the Principle of Population, English clergyman and economist Thomas Robert Malthus (1766–1834), challenged the so-called Enlightenment philosophy that man was essentially good, that he had proceeded upward from the savage, and would continue towards perfection as a law of nature. Malthus said that population numbers tend to go up much more rapidly than food supplies, resulting in misery, not perfection, for mankind. . . . 

Throughout his Essay, Malthus constantly referred to God as the Creator, the Supreme Being or Providence. He even invoked the gospel in his final chapter: “But the doctrine of life and Mortality which was brought to light by the gospel, the doctrine that the end of righteousness is everlasting life, but that the wages of sin are death, is in every respect just and merciful, and worthy of the great Creator.”

Sadly, the essay was co-opted by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace who, independently of each other were inspired by Malthus' conclusions and conceived the supposition now known as the theory of evolution by means of natural selection.

Undoubtedly Malthus’s Essay triggered a line of thinking in the minds of both Darwin and Wallace that led both men independently to conjure up the concept of evolution by means of natural selection, in opposition to the Genesis account of creation. However, Malthus cannot be blamed for this, and many of his assumptions have in any case not stood the test of time. Creation Ministries International

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