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Darwin's Criticism

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Like any scientific revolution, Darwin also had his critics. Although he was expecting heavy criticism from biblical literalists, he faced harsh criticism for his methods used in developing the theory of natural selection. For example, most of his critics called him out for his deductive reasoning behind the theory. As stated by Sedgwick, “Darwin's theory is not inductive, —not based on a series of acknowledged facts pointing to a general conclusion, —not a proposition evolved out of the facts, logically, and of course including them”. He goes on to say that Darwin’s theory is full on conjecture because instead of forming a hypothesis first in order to build upon his knowledge, he started at the top of the pyramid and work his way down to develop

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