Do you think, on theories of evolution there are many more surprises coming to change what we know now?

Question

Charles Dawin threw in a few surprises when he took his intellectual journey 1831-36, and came back with a collossal bank of data, that even he found hard to digest.
By 1846 he had published papers that put him in the top rank of scientists.

Many of Dawins theories have been torn apart over the years, and then put back together again, however, we go on seaching for the truth. What next?

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I was stating a fact, not what I believe.
Questioning something, opens up debate, which surely is good?
Thank you for your answer...

Answer 1

The basics of the theory of evolution are confirmed every day in labs and hospitals around the world. Since the development of the modern synthesis in the 1930s and 40s, which linked Darwin's theories with the new science of genetics, the theory has been incredibly successful with nothing to challenge it.

So there is extremely unlikely to be a massive revolution. However debates continue over the importance of different parts of the theory - the relative significance of drift and sexual selection vs natural selection, punctuated equilibrium vs gradualism, and so on, and philosophical debates like what is the unit of selection (species, organism or even single genes). The relatively new area of evo-devo is also throwing up lots of very interesting stuff.

All this will continue and yes there will be surprises, but it doesn't seem likely that anything will overthrow what we have.

Answer 2

Yes,I do think the evolutionary theory has a lot in store to change what we know now.If we accepted that it doesn't,then we would defeat the definition itself.
People generally tend to confine the theory to Darwin,yet it can be traced back to the ancient Greek philosophers and Darwin was one of those who were sitting on their shoulders .I think it is because the years that Charles Darwin revealed his findings were the time when the conflict between materialist and non-materialist ideologies reached the peak.Non-materialist supporters made use of the religion to stand against it.Considering all arguments against the evolution are based on religion rather than science,we can conclude that they have been successful.
As for your question'What next'.I wish I could have a time machine and travel to the future to see it,could come back to tell you afterwards.

Answer 3

Oh yes, loads more info to be mined over the next few decades. Crick and Watson, Richard Dawkins, Homo Florensis... The implications of evolution have yet to be absorbed by society at large I think, probably the worst misnomer is that "survival of the fittest" was and is used to justify the "crush them all" attitude. Maybe that works in limited cases, but what was meant was fitness for purpose, whatever that purpose might be. Including nurturing the young and old, building trust and reputation and sustaining resources. DNA, evolutionary psychology, implications for the class system- amazing stuff.

Answer 4

To the idiot who said evolution is not a fact because it is a theory, someone should tell him that all facts are technically theories, since they are based on limited human observations of the observable aspects of natural phenomena.

What will be new with regard to the theory of evolution is the discovery of how changes actually occur that are eerily consistent with the experience of the particular organism - mutations are only a small part of the real answer.

Answer 5

"Many of Dawins theories have been torn apart over the years"

excuse me? only in the minds of simpletons.

Darwin stands tall, even today.

Answer 6

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

And Darwin stole his theories from a guy who developed religious qualms about releasing such material - no wonder he wasn't wholely clear about what he though

Answer 7

I think the biggest surprise all the evolutionists are going to have, is when the Lord Jesus turns up in a few years (or sooner), as He has promised, and demands to know why they thought they had the authority to defame His Word.
Shortly before they get cast into hell... You read it here, don't tell me I didn't warn you

Answer 8

Nothing all too surprising is likely to show up, unless we find alien specimen. That is the ONLY surprising thing that could turn up.

Answer 9

Well, we will be "tweaking" his theories just like we do with Newton's ideas of gravity, but there prob won't be any ground-breaking ideas in that field that will "shake the world".

Answer 10

Evolution still going on it's own way. Every year new illness like flu viruses are evoling.