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Ricky
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Dude
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 Posted - 07/22/2004 : 19:01:00 [Permalink]
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| Darwin's ideas were met with pretty stiff resistance when first introduced. It took some time, and a certain accumulation of evidence, for evolution to become accepted. |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 07/22/2004 : 19:45:12 [Permalink]
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That animals change over time had actually been a widely-spread idea long before Darwin. If I remember correctly, Lamarck wasn't considered a loony by his peers, decades before Origin. What was new with Darwin was primarily the idea that natural selection could drive evolution.
Probably the best story, in terms of a good theory rejected for a long time, is that of Wegener and Continental Drift. There was simply no way to even collect the necessary evidence until some 40 years after the introduction of the theory. But then so much evidence was gathered, so quickly, that the entire geological field was changed in a very short time. |
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furshur
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Posted - 07/23/2004 : 05:28:10 [Permalink]
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If Evolution or some other revolutionary idea that went against the accepted norm was introduced I would not accept it untill there was 'sufficient' evidence to support it.
It is interesting that it takes a huge amount of evidence to turn an idea into a workable theory or law, but it takes only a small amount of evidence to kill a theory. If evidence was found that dinosaurs and humans lived together at the same time, Evolution as we know it would be 'blown out of the water'. |
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Ricky
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But then again, so far it is the only one that really answers the question...