WWII's planned mass extinctions - and the inordinate fondness for beetles

All I really know about God is that He must have an inordinate fondness for beetles - all 350,000 species of them.

As it happens, so do I.

And I like to think that scientist Henry Dawson also did too.

If so , then he was very much alone.

'White Finches evolved to be Black' : is ANY of this true ?

Well 'finches' are 'finches' - we'll let that semi-accurate layperson definition stand, for the sake of argument.

But did all the white finches, as gradually as Darwin claimed they must, all turn into black finches ?

But might it really be that most finches used to white and now - currently and only here and not there - most are black ?

Because the locks change faster than the keys : Darwin's loss is Dawson's gain

Charles Darwin had to seriously bent and twist the scientific evidence that lay before him to satisfy his twin personal concerns before he could publish his famous theory.

He wanted to both claim that Evolution indeed happened (boo-woo! said his fellow well-to-do Victorians) but that fortunately it happened extremely slowly (hooray!)