Ann Coulter deconstructs Darwin (Introduction)

by broken_cynic , Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 21:12 (4812 days ago) @ David Turell

"Partially. Do you think The Cambrian Explosion is explained by Darwin? Darwin himself said in his book that more fossils had to be found or it will not be explained, but he was referring to the holes in his current fossil record and didn't know about the later Cambrian discoveries in the 1890's, which have been enormously expanded now in the Chinese shales.-Darwin can't explain carnivorous plants either, and admitted that."-
The utter insanity of pointing to Coulter as if she were a sane, reasonable or authorative source (on evolutionary biology nonetheless!) aside...-You're making the same error she does. Darwin and the current state of evolutionary science are NOT interchangeable. There was a great deal Darwin could not explain (DNA is probably the most obvious example.) His theory was an incredibly good foundation, but where it had holes they are being filled, where it was wrong it is being corrected. It still isn't complete and perfect, likely never will be, but it was an amazingly good first shot at a model and it has been greatly improved in the time since.