We read now and then an article title that reads “ the missing link found”, or “another proof for evolution”, or something similar. Upon reviewing history, many claimed to have discovered evidence for the theory of evolution, but it turns out that these claims were false. We will examine some of these incidents below. 1. Piltdown Man (1912) Scientist: Charles Dawson. Claim: The “missing…
The Classical vs. Evolutionary Definition of Homology Classically, homology meant similarity of structure and position (e.g., bone patterns), not descent. However, Darwin claimed that homologies proved common ancestry. He wrote in On the Origin of Species: “What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle…
What is natural selection? According to Oxford Languages, natural selection is the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. Meaning those less well adapted die out. In the introduction to On the Origin of Species, Darwin wrote, “I am fully convinced that species are not immutable.” He continued, “Furthermore, I am convinced that Natural Selection has…
Darwin insisted that new variations, the raw materials for natural selection, originated without purpose or direction, but he did not know their source. In his book On the Origin of Species, he started chapter 5 with this: “I HAVE hitherto sometimes spoken as if the variations...were due to chance. This, of course, is a wholly incorrect expression, but it serves to acknowledge plainly our…
