Malthus

=== talk.origins ===
This thread "topdocumentaries.com on natural selection" led to a discussion on Malthus
* https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/talk.origins/2gWPbOfjR0A/DRTz9Fc5hrsJ
My view on Malthus was that his theory was a Claim of logic, something which has to be true by necessity and is thus Popper unfalsifiable. This explains why Darwin's rephrasing of his grandfather  (artificial cultivation became artificial selection) was also not testable. 
Malthus, Matthew, Darwin all lifted their ideas from Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia
Category:Darwin's predecessors