... be held open to extension, modification, even possible replacement." 2 Many, probably most, scientists believe q That evolution actually happened is a fact; q Some of the precise mechanisms by which it happened are still being debated. In addition: Stephen J Gould, quoted Charles Darwin's book The Descent of Man. Darwin wrote: "I had two distinct objects in view; firstly, to show that species had not been separately created, and secondly, that natural ... selection had been the chief agent of change....Hence if I have erred in....having exaggerated its [natural selection's] power....I h...

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... ,? which existed at least 3.5 billion years ago, to the profusion and diversity of life that exists today. This path is best understood as a product of evolution. Contrary to popular opinion, neither the term nor the idea of biological evolution began with Charles Darwin and his foremost work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). Many scholars from the ancient Greek philosophers on had ... asIf man evolved from the apes, then why are there still apes?? The theory of evolution is not equivalent to Darwinism. The term Darwin most often used to refer to biological ...

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... , which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications" (Darwin, 1859). The theory of evolution, formalized by Charles Darwin, is as much theory as is the theory of gravity, or the theory of relativity. Unlike theories of physics, biological theories, and especially evolution, have been argued long and hard in socio-political arenas ... for reacting on nature also grew; the hand alone would never have achieved the steam engine if man's brain had not developed correlatively and side by side with it...

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... ; nobody is going to persuade me different. Just because I believe this, doesn't mean the word evolution doesn't exist. Charles Darwin, is the known creator of the "Theory of Evolution", however, that is not what he liked to call his theory. He preferred to call it "descent with modification". The reason he did this was, because in old Victorian England, evolution already had several meanings, not ... in Creation. To them, this is a forbidden word. To me, hearing the word evolution immediately puts a picture of an ape turning into a man into my head. Another phrase that goes hand in hand...

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