History’s Intellectual Fallacies

of primary rationalism, just like other famous scientific arguments. Theory of Darwinism Among the intellectual fallacies that the history of philosophy is littered with is ‘Darwinism.’ The theory of Darwinism and its worldview have received immense popularity. Many books have been written on this theory, and it has probably been included in the curricula of almost all of the world’s universities. However, if you analyze this theory scientifically, it is nothing but a beautiful fallacy. Darwinism is also known as the ‘Theory of natural selection,’ based on random mutations or organic evolution. In brief, it claims that life started on Earth long ago as a simple organism. Then, through reproduction, due to the influence of various conditions, mutations continued to happen in this primitive life form. These mutations went on a continuous evolutionary journey in which the initial species turned into many different species. In Darwin’s words, this supposed law was ‘natural selection.’ What Darwin meant was that a process of natural selection takes place in which favourable traits are transmitted through generations, resulting in the selection of the fittest and the formation of new species. According to Darwin, this material law was supposedly directing this long process of biological evolution. One fundamental flaw of this theory is that it cites two species that show some bodily similarities and then claims that through a long process of biological evolution, one