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Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit... by dalke on Monday May 04, 2015 @04:19PM (#9488872)
When Darwin "solved" the question of evolution, he did not solve it for good. There has been a lot of work to make it a better, deeper, and more powerful mechanism for understanding biology.

This is true for just about all research.

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Re:Retire This Idea: Scientific Knowledge Structured as “Lit... by gnaritas on Monday May 04, 2015 @04:46PM (#9489071)
Science doesn't solve problems in that sense, Darwin didn't solve the evolution question, he proposed a successful theory to explain it and that core idea remains true though modern biologists have gone much further than Darwin ever could as his time was before DNA. To use the word solved just wouldn't be correct in any sense of the word.
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