hod of observation and deduction was based on the empirical, scientific method of Bacon: "I worked on true Baconian principles and without any theory collected facts on a wholesale scale," i.e. let the facts speak for themselves, but he contradicted himself later on and did not in fact use this method. De Beer tells us: "This was invalidated by Darwin himself when he wrote to Lyell (June 1, 1860): 'Without the making of theories, I am convinced there would be no observations." (26) Thus it appears that Darwin did not use a very scientific method when arriving at his conclusions. Reminiscent of Darwin's penchant for telling fibs and spinning fantastic tales as a youth, De Beer again informs us that "Darwin's method was to spin a hypothesis about anything that struck his attention (i.e. anything that he was predisposed by ideas to see) . . ." [the above words in parenthesis are not my addition but from the article itself.] (27) It has been clearly demonstrated,contrary to the numerous tributes of praise to Charles Darwin at the beginning of this section, that he was by no means the first person to come up with the theory of evolution. Having read of Darwin'own actual bleak academic background before his voyage on the Beagle, it should not surprise us to find out that the idea that he has been given credit for by so many of his followers, the evolution of species, was not his own idea in the least. What is suprising is that he has been hailed by these same followers as the great inovator of some grand new scheme of life, when nothing could be farther from the truth. The so called "modern" theory of evolution itself has been around for thousands of years. It is not some novel development as a result of any scientific discovery, despite the claims of its most ardent adherents, but is simply the resurrection of an ancient, pagan creation myth, biased towards a materialistic, non-theistic view of the universe, which view has been warmly adopt...
