rightwinger
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Darwin was a GENIUSThis may come as a shock to you but in the many decades since Darwin lived, science has made lots of progress in the field.
You may feel the Cambrian explosion causes problems for evolution but that is a minority opinion of those with a bias to confirm. Sorry.
What a surprise that science is complex and that complexity grows as we learn more. Doesn't negate the basic premise that horses evolved:
As the number of equid fossils has increased, the actual evolutionary progression from Eohippus to Equus has been discovered to be much more complex and multibranched than was initially supposed. Detailed fossil information on the rate and distribution of new equid species has also revealed that the progression between species was not as smooth and consistent as was once believed.Although some transitions were indeed gradual progressions, a number of others were relatively abrupt in geologic time, taking place over only a few million years. Both anagenesis, a gradual change in an entire population ‘s gene frequency, and cladogenesis, a population “splitting” into two distinct evolutionary branches, occurred, and many species coexisted with “ancestor” species at various times.
His realization about the similarities and evolution of species over time was groundbreaking
The religious powers of the time considered him a heretic