Catherine !TGirlYJKXM started this discussion 11 years ago#43,797
I read the introduction to this book by Charles Darwin since Google Play has it for free.
In this introduction he means the competing theory that species are individually created.
Now this bogged my mind a bit as it made me wonder... intelligent design couldn't have been the only theory as to the origin of species before evolution was determined, could it? Surely, there had to be other lesser known and less accepted theories, right?
Was intelligent design really the only theory about the origin of species before evolution?
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 11 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#578,440
Spontaneous generation was one of the lead contenders prior Pasteur's experiments. The Chinese had some interesting (though improbable) hypotheses, and you might also like to take a look at the theories of Democritus and his followers.