Was Darwin right about evolution

Answer 1

Yes, Charles Darwin was right. His theory of Evolution by Natural Selection is the most important theory in the whole of Biology. This can come as a surprise to students entering University to study biology if they have been brought up in a soft school soother of 'Oh well, Creation or Evolution, like them or hate them, we don't really know' which might occur if the school is too scared to teach Evolution for fear of a sudden court case. It so happens that "Nothing makes sense in biology except in the light of Evolution" as Theodosius Dobzhansky uttered. We definitely know that evolution occurs, life is variable and thus there is variety for Natural Selection to mould. Life proceeds by Natural Selection. The biodiversity of life on the planet is all due to evolution, at any point in time, from the 10 000 species of flatworm to the 50 000 species of extinct trilobite to the possibly 30 million species of insect. There is absolutely no doubt in the minds of biologists (and physicists and chemists and geologists and cosmologists) worldwide that evolution occurs. There is much evidence. There is much debate too, but not about whether Evolution in general is true or not. Evolution is correct. What is debated is whether Sexual Selection is a subset of Natural Selection or something slightly different (I think it is a subset). Another debate is whether a species can survive unchanged from the Cambrian to the present, like lampshells (I doubt it: present lamp shells should at the very least be different species or genera from their Cambrian ancestors). And countless more debates rage excitingly through the scientific community. But everyone who knows biology from a bar of soap knows that Darwin was correct. More correctly, the evidence shows (regardless of the adherents to the theory) that Darwin was right.