Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how…
“Natural selection certainly operates. It explains how bacteria will gain antibiotic resistance; it will explain how insects get insecticide resistance, but it doesn't explain how you get bacteria or insects in the first place.”
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Natural selection explains adaptation but not the origin of life; it leaves the initial emergence of organisms unexplained.
In simple terms: Evolution explains change, not how life began.
Explore origins beyond selection.
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- What mechanisms could bridge the gap?
- How should science address unanswered origins?
Current theories are incomplete.