blues517@hotmail.com wrote: > It utterly destroys the Theory of Evolution which bamboozled us for > many decades but actually was never more than the release of toxic gas > or the incredible featof a Smithsonian pseudoscientist searching for > answers looking without a flashlight).. The first fully formed scientific theory of evolution is credited to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, 1744 - 1829. Since the Smithsonian Institute was founded in 1846, Lamarck couldn't possibly have been a member. Charles Darwin 1809 – 1882, famous for _The Origin of Species_ could have been a member, but I can't find any evidence that he was. I have to conclude, therefore, that it is blues517's posting which is the release of gas. Sean_Q_