Hitting La Mark (POP part 17)

I was wondering about whether or not there were others before Darwin who had an inkling about Evolution.  On the Evolution wiki page I focused on the section History of evolutionary thought (Pre-Darwinian), and I came to a notable person who stands out given the following info: 

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829)

TODAY being the anniversary of his death.  So I investigated the other notable persons mentioned and came to four who then stood out:  

• Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788)
• Erasmus Robert Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) 
• Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) 

We now have an “April 16, 17, 18, 19/Date Sequence” pattern cluster.  I included my son-in-laws birthday — April 17th.  Also interesting to note is that my son-in-law, a Christian, does not believe that evolution is true.  My son-in-law claims that what we are really seeing in so far as evidence, is “adaptation”, which I assume to mean according to biblical time (According to the Bible, the Earth is around 6,000 years old, while scientists estimate the Earth's age to be around 4.6 billion years).

This was also interesting information: 

Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic.^[5][6] It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.

As to the bible purporting that the earth to be around 6000 years old, I found this info: 

The Bible does not directly address the age of the Earth or the universe. The number of 6000 years came from Archbishop Ussher in the 17th century. The short version is that he assumed that the Biblical genealogies were complete historically accurate lists (along with the ages of each respective person) and came up with a creation date of 4004 BC.

•  James Ussher (or Usher; 4 January 1581 – 21 March 1656)

Do note the cryptic communication in his name—  “jams usher us her”.  

Of course, as with the “flat earth” proponents, I don’t believe that the bible makes either of those claims.  I however do understand that confirmation bias does play a roll in deceiving people… and in people deceiving themselves.  We do need to progress, for the benefit of our world and ourselves.  I’m not saying that everything that the religious right purport to be fact is wrong.  I do believe that they… and everyone for that matter, needs to keep eyes, ears and minds open for the truth, even if that means going against societal norms.  There was a time that Christianity justified slavery through bible versus such as “there will be hewers of wood and water” (in other words “menial labourers”), and yes, even though some do work in occupations that pay less and in some cases work that demands less, this does not mean that the person is of lesser value in a democratic society, especially a society that holds to socialistic view … in the way that Jesus did.  

I will also say this: now with the Genetic/DNA knowledge that our population consists of  “Natural Human Chimera’s”, and that this involves many individuals carrying aspects of their fraternal twin… that could be of the opposite sex, it’s very possible that Jesus was both male and female, like many of us are, butt aren’t the slightest bit aware.  

As for myself, I believe that my own inner twin, Tou, is male, and even though that is true and I believe this has influenced my position among the LGBTQ+… community, I identify as female.   I believe that Tou and I coexist as ONE, and that our outward genital shape doesn’t change the heart of our being ONE— we love and share closeness, our children, our family, our sexuality, our love of life, learning and growing.  We celebrate being ONE!!  This is not to say that others can’t feel differently, and the diversity within the LGBTQ+… community is an indication of that.  

My partner of 27 years (now ex) identified as “male”, and so often made comment that the term lesbian to describe her and us, was not correct — she considers herself fully male in a body that has female parts.  

One of my biggest beefs with an unprogressive Christianity that takes the Bible as a historical accurate and litteral account of God’s word, is that it does not paint women in a good light ie— there are parts of the Bible that state women are meant to be subject to men, note from the 1Timothy 2:12 wiki page: 

1 Timothy 2:12 is the twelfth verse of the second chapter of the First Epistle to Timothy. It is often quoted using the King James Version translation:

But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.

— 1 Timothy 2:12, KJV^[1]

The verse is widely used to oppose ordination of women as clergy, and to oppose certain other positions of ministry and leadership for women in large segments of Christianity. Many such groups that do not permit women to become clergy also cite 1 Corinthians 14:32–35^[2] and 1 Timothy 3:1–7.^[3] Historically, the verse was used to justify legal inequality for women and to exclude women from secular leadership roles as well.

Note: 

The verse has been criticized for its sexism and its perceived inconsistency with other verses attributed to Paul, such as Galatians 3:28, which states "there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." Richard and Catherine Kroeger point to examples of female teachers and leaders known to Paul, such as Priscilla and Phoebe, to support their conclusion that the verse has been mistranslated. Most modern scholars believe 1 Timothy was not actually written by Paul

 British women's rights activist Annie Besant points to this verse (among others) to observe that women are treated as slaves in the Bible. She considers this the root of the unequal and paternalistic way in which women were treated during her own lifetime. Besant finds the explanation given in Timothy for the inferiority of women — that men are superior because Adam was created before Eve — to be absurd, implying that animals are superior to man, as the Bible states that animals were created even earlier.

Martin Luther wrote that "man" in this verse specifically refers to a husband, meaning that wives should never appear wiser or more knowledgeable than their husbands, neither in public nor at home. Luther contends that, because of this verse and nearby verses in 1 Timothy, women should not speak or teach in public and must remain completely quiet in church, writing "where there is a man, there no woman should teach or have authority."^[11] On this basis, parts of Lutheranism today do not allow women into church leadership.