Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and un…

Stephen Jay Gould
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Our creationist detractors charge that evolution is an unproved and unprovable charade — a secular religion masquerading as science. They claim, above all, that evolution generates no predictions, never exposes itself to test, and therefore stands as dogma rather than disprovable science. This claim is nonsense. ✨ Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history.
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