On why Darwinism must die...

Evolution rarely comes up in the media without Charles Darwin's name. He did, after all, come up with the idea of natural selection.

However, this essay published yesterday in The New York Times argues that evolution needs to leave Darwin behind in order to gain greater acceptance in the non-scientific communities.

Author Carl Safina writes:

Equating evolution with Charles Darwin ignores 150 years of discoveries, including most of what scientists understand about evolution. Such as: Gregor Mendel’s patterns of heredity (which gave Darwin’s idea of natural selection a mechanism — genetics — by which it could work); the discovery of DNA (which gave genetics a mechanism and lets us see evolutionary lineages); developmental biology (which gives DNA a mechanism); studies documenting evolution in nature (which converted the hypothetical to observable fact); evolution’s role in medicine and disease (bringing immediate relevance to the topic); and more.

Safina equates calling evolution Darwinism with calling gravity Newtonism. It's just not done. However, you do have Marxism, which is a belief system. Calling evolution Darwinism implies that evolution is a belief system. Let's change that.