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Yes, and so is Darwinian evolution. He predicted that the earliest human ancestors would be found in Africa, and he was right. He predicted that intermediate forms between species would be found, and he was right.



We assumed an age for the earliest humans, and so when we found early human bones, we knew they were the earliest because we had already assumed an age for them. Great.

There are no intermediate forms. How many times do we have to go through this? Its call the "paleontologists trade secret" for a reason.

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Darwin's theories gave us an understanding of how species form



Life develops because of DNA. After conceptions, humans don't mutate from a single cell into a full grown human. We develop according to a complex schematic (our DNA). So our understanding of DNA, not evolution, tells us how animals develop. Evolution just tries to figure out what we used to develop into. Even then, science can't agree on one solid tree, and that means there is no solid tree. Its all subjective. Thus it isn't science and we're wasting our time trying to figure it out.

This is a tautology anyway. Darwin said, without any reproducable evidence, that animals evolved (it was based on observations, but he never actually saw an animal evolve). So therefore, he gave us a way to understand the evolution of species. That's like saying, "The sun is made from the laughter of children. So now I've explained how the sun is made out of the laughter of children." It begs the question of whether or not I was right in the first place. In fact, assuming evolution is true, even without being able to reproduce it, is very limiting. Evolution limits science, it puts all of biology through a filter, and a false one at that.

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how traits that seem almost miraculous, like the patterning on certain animals, could have developed naturally.



Which is why he said evolution couldn't explain the eye, of course.

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He was the first to understand how isolation and physical boundaries can force populations to speciate.



He was the first to postulate that isolated organisms speciation, but he misunderstood how it happened.

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Darwin is considered the greatest scientists of the 19th century, and one of the greatest and most important of all time. Like Newton, he created a new kind of science.



He's an icon, nothing more. His theory should have died once we figured out most of his guesses about evolution were incorrect, but he finally gave atheists a reason to feel smart, so they wouldn't let the theory die that easily.

I recommend anyone who's interested read this dissection of some of Gould's literature.

http://www.blavatsky.net/darwin/stasis_in_fossil_record.htm

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