Not by natural selection? (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 04:39 (3861 days ago) @ David Turell

Evolution fails in its predictions: 
> "Thus, three researchers were more than a little shaken to find that their experiments on fresh water green algae failed to support Darwin's theory — at least in one case."
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Denial:-> "When we saw the results, we said 'this can't be."' We sat there banging our heads against the wall. Darwin's hypothesis has been with us for so long, how can it not be right?"
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> "Evolution does not appear to predict which species have good traits and bad traits," he says. "We should be able to look at the Tree of Life, and evolution should make it clear who will win in competition and who will lose. But the traits that regulate competition can't be predicted from the Tree of Life."
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> -Discomfort & rebellion against the facts:-> 'The researchers..were so uncomfortable with their results that they spent the next several months trying to disprove their own work. But the research held up.
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> "The hypothesis is so intuitive that it was hard for us to give it up, but we are becoming more and more convinced that he wasn't right about the organisms we've been studying," -More denial:->Cardinale says. "It doesn't mean the hypothesis won't hold for other organisms,... but it's enough that we want to get biologists to rethink the generality of Darwin's hypothesis."-
Alright boys and girls.. according to good scientific practice, what do we do when a theory or hypothesis fails in its predictions?

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.