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CMI image caption: "Fossil octopus remarkably preserved in Lebanon reveals details of the eight arms, suckers, ink, gills, mouth, eye capsule and more."

From the article: "So a better way to counter this would be to ask whether evolution has made predictions about the fossil record that have been confirmed by subsequent discoveries. And by this measure evolution falls dramatically short.

For instance, Charles Darwin said that “no organism wholly soft can be preserved.”

He was simply wrong, because we have many examples of this. "

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Evolution doesn’t make a prediction about whether soft organisms can be preserved or not, so the fact that Darwin’s personal opinion on this matter was mistaken can’t be used to refute evolution, generally.