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  2. Evolution as fact and theory - Wikipedia

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    Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun. It is not a theory, and for pity's sake, let's stop confusing the philosophically naive by calling it so. Evolution is a fact." [37] Neil Campbell wrote in his 1990 biology textbook, "Today, nearly all biologists acknowledge that evolution is a fact. The term theory is no longer appropriate ...

  3. Objections to evolution - Wikipedia

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    Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different ...

  4. Rejection of evolution by religious groups - Wikipedia

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    Marston [113] [114] has argued that, although the creationism argument (that because evolution is "merely" a theory, it therefore cannot also be a fact) reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of the concepts, the scientific countering of the creationist position by the simple stipulation that evolution is a fact may be counterproductive; a ...

  5. Opinion: Not accepting scientific evidence supporting ... - AOL

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    Some people are indoctrinated against the theory of evolution and simply do not think about it. But evolution is a well-established explanation of how life developed on Earth. Furthermore, the ...

  6. Level of support for evolution - Wikipedia

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    In fact, evolution is being put to practical use in industry and widely used on a daily basis by researchers in medicine, biochemistry, molecular biology, and genetics to both formulate hypotheses about biological systems for the purposes of experimental design, as well as to rationalise observed data and prepare applications.

  7. Why Darwin Matters - Wikipedia

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    Unlike evolution, he came up with the hypothesis first and found the data to verify it later. He did this work on the same voyage of HMS Beagle that took him to the Galápagos. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Darwin insisted that theory comes to and from the facts, not from political or philosophical beliefs.

  8. Introduction to evolution - Wikipedia

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    Evolution is an inevitable result of imperfectly copying, self-replicating organisms reproducing over billions of years under the selective pressure of the environment. The outcome of evolution is not a perfectly designed organism. The end products of natural selection are organisms that are adapted to their present environments.

  9. Evolution - Wikipedia

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    Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. [1] [2] It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations. [3]