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Playing the devil's advocate, what results does the theory of evolution give us other than confidence to observe that a species genes mutate sometimes giving ri
by travis-d-ray 10y ago
Playing the devil's advocate, what results does the theory of evolution give us other than confidence to observe that a species genes mutate sometimes giving rise to a new species? Does evolution have any predictive power?
- flukus 10y agoIt predicted the existence of DNA, or something very much like it. It predicted that the DNA copying process would contain errors, something not confirmed until long after Darwins death. It predicted the existence of many animals, extinct and extent, origin of species itself list some examples. It also predicted a single origin for all/most life, which presented a lot of problems for the theory before we understood things like continental drift. Aside from that, it gave us one of the first hints that simple rules can create complex behaviors, which is important to a lot of sciences.