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Look at Euclid, Mendel, Darwin, Curie.

OK, so what practical discovery did Darwin make? Antibiotics? No. Resistance to antibiotics? You think the reason for the resistance wouldn't have been figured out just as quickly without the theory of descent with modification from a common ancestor?

??? Random mutation and descent with modification IS the mechanism of development of resistance. When breeding horses for speed, it's useful to know that training the sire won't make the foals faster. When breeding strains of wheat it's useful to know that pampering one generation won't make the next generation more healthy or productive. Both of these misconceptions are intuitively appealing and can be very expensive. If you want to deal with new strains of influenza you'd better understand how they originate. Is that enough, or do you want more?