Mendel wanted to do his experiments with rats but the church didn't gave him enough money and support so he had to use peas. Rats genetics are way more complex that peas and it would be hard for him to get to any meaningful results using them.
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What does this have to do with what you said?
I used https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=NgGLFozNM2o and did a ctl+F for "Mendel," and there's nothing
I remember learning about that in that video, if isn't there then it could be in the podcast "History of philosophy without any gaps" but no idea in what episode.
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Sshhh, don’t tell anyone the church was a patron of the sciences. Ruins the narrative.
Scientist: we discovered this thanks to your funding
Church: Nice, now shut the fuck up, you are gonna ruin the racket.
Was. They didn't like what they found though.
DAE SIENCE ONLY ATEIST CLUB?
Another issue that Darwin had is that for the theory of evolution to work you need very long periods of time.
The problem is that it has been proved by the physicist William Thomson using cold hard maths that the earth cannot be older that few hundreds millions years, which is not compatible with Darwin's theory.
History told us that Darwin was right and Thomson wrong but it did not appeared this way at the time.
It should also be noted that huge parts of the Church also rejected William Thomson's age calculations for the Earth. Even though he massively underestimated its age, the Church asserted that the Earth was even younger.