[count-your-change]

Think of all the great scientific accomplishments and consider how few had anything to do with the idea of biological evolution.

Understanding the circulation of blood, discovery of antibiotics, heavier than air flight, magnetism and how it's related to electricity, atomic energy, metal refining, the periodic table of elements, the internal combustion engine, all the related fields of math, cellular structure of organisms,..... I could go on and on but it becomes clear how unimportant the notion of biological evolution really is unless someone is selling an Ardi or a Lucy.

[Boogieman]

“I could go on and on but it becomes clear how unimportant the notion of biological evolution really is unless someone is selling an Ardi or a Lucy.”

Right on. I’d really love to hear about some examples of predictions made based on biological evolution that led to useful scientific breakthroughs.

I’m talking true intra-species evolutionary theory here, not just natural selection or mutation tinkering with the set types of species observable in nature. Inducing birth defects in fruit flies doesn’t cut it.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

Think of all the great scientific accomplishments and consider how few had anything to do with the idea of biological evolution.

How about the great scientific accomplishment of eugenics? That had everything to do with the idea of biological evolution.