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Darwin’s Own Tests Fail to Validate the Darwinian Model

Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species is considered by many to be the beginning of the ongoing creation vs. evolution debate. Surprisingly, the controversy started much earlier, in 50 BC, with the appearance of Lucretius’s book, De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things). Darwin’s book deserves credit, however, for catapulting the conflict into the public arena. The Scopes Monkey Trial helped popularize the dispute.

What often sparks a heated exchange on the subject is either an evolutionist’s claim that biological evolution is a “proven fact” or a creationist’s comment that evolution is “just a theory.” With such salvos, a needless...