[goldstategop]

Charles Darwin's work has endured, with modern modifications because it provides an explanation of the processes that made living things what they are today. Evolution does not seek to answer the question about the ultimate origin of living things. That's the domain of theology. Science seeks to answer questions that can be verified through empirical research and testing. Questions of faith are entirely different from questions about nature. Have species lived and died out over time? Yes! Do they acquire adaptations that enable them to populate and survive in a given habitat? Yes! Are the species we see the result of separation and diversification from an original ancestral population? Yes! Those were all questions about nature that evolution tries to answer. As a framework, its made a huge advancement on our understanding of life on this planet. Darwin in the considered general judgment of posterity, is the greatest scientist who ever lived, period. End of debate.

Denny Crane: "There are two places to find the truth. First God and then Fox News."

[HankReardon]

The "end of debate" has now been declared! I'm not debating, I'm ridiculing.

I am 2000 years further evolutionarily advanced than Jesus Christ! Just think what I can do!

[Constantine XIII]

Well, Darwin was right, but I wouldn't call him the greatest ever. It isn't like he invented the light bulb, ice cream, or general relativity.

Those are biggies, too! :P