The current understanding was that it was impossible to predict how something would evolve because it was a very turbulent environment full of things interacting with each other.
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You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
In the last century, as we learned more about genes, we were able to devise ways of accelerating evolution.
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.
People have contemplated the origin and evolution of the universe since before the time of Aristotle. Very recently, the era of speculation has given way to a time of science.
If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
Of course everybody's thinking evolves over time.
Unlike science, creationism cannot predict anything, and it cannot provide satisfactory answers about the past.
The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.
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