Re:Thank God! (Score 1)

If you throw out evolution, you have to throw out one of these ideas: the theory that an organisms devolopment is an expression of its genetic material

The fact that an organism is an expression of its genetic material does not mean that evolution is true or false. It has nothing to do with evolution. Evolution describes the change in genetic material from one generation to the next. The validity of genetics does not have anything to do with monkeys changing into men over millions of years.

the theory that an organism inherits its genetic material

Gentetic inheritance does not depend on evolution being true.

the theory that the genetic material is mutable

Genetic mutations do not depend on evolution being true. Evolution states that bacteria + mutations + time = humans. Evolution depends on mutations not the other way around.

Regardless of weather or not evolution is true, genetics does not depend on evolution. Gregor Mendel was doing his work on genetics at the same time as Darwin. The only thing that their theorys had in common was that neither was dependant on the other.