Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so that it could be correct?'. That's a very different question. One of my prevailing doctrines about Darwinian theory is 'Man, that thing is just a mess. It's like looking into a room full of smoke.' Nothing in the theory is precisely, clearly, carefully defined or delineated. It lacks all of the rigor one expects from mathematical physics, and mathematical physics lacks all the rigor one expects from mathematics. So we're talking about a gradual descent down the level of intelligibility until we reach evolutionary biology. David Berlinski
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John Maynard Smith's book 'Evolution and the Theory of Games' was published in 1973. In this book, he argued that the theory of evolution by natural selection was not a mathematical theory that could be proved or disproved but rather just an explanation of how life works that needed to be tested against actual examples of life. He then went on to claim that the evidence suggested that the process of natural selection was not ideal for explaining life as it existed. Natural Selection was insufficient for saying how life had come to exist in the first place.

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