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... fact ; for what is a fact but a thoroughly confirmed hypothesis ? Similarly , within thirty years of the publication of The Origin of Species , there was hardly a biologist alive who didn't regard evolution as a fact for data from all ...
... fact ; for what is a fact but a thoroughly confirmed hypothesis ? Similarly , within thirty years of the publication of The Origin of Species , there was hardly a biologist alive who didn't regard evolution as a fact for data from all ...
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... fact ; agreement with reality . " " Fact , " in turn , is " something that has really occurred or is actually the case ; something certainly known to be of this character ; hence a particular truth known by actual observation or ...
... fact ; agreement with reality . " " Fact , " in turn , is " something that has really occurred or is actually the case ; something certainly known to be of this character ; hence a particular truth known by actual observation or ...
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... fact . " In exactly the same way , creationists say that evolution is a theory , not a fact , and hence unproven . However , nothing in science is ever proven in this sense . There are no immutable facts . Every scien- tific claim is a ...
... fact . " In exactly the same way , creationists say that evolution is a theory , not a fact , and hence unproven . However , nothing in science is ever proven in this sense . There are no immutable facts . Every scien- tific claim is a ...
Contents
THE GROWTH OF EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE | 23 |
THE LEGACY OF THE TAXONOMISTS | 44 |
THE FOSSIL RECORD | 68 |
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