Evolution Makes a Child's Error

Below, protein chemist Douglas Axe briefly clarifies what Darwin got right, and what he got wrong. The problem with evolutionary theory is this: It assumes that natural selection -- true as far as it goes, in the sense that helpful variations, judged for survival and reproduction, will outcompete less helpful ones -- can account for clever inventions in the history of life. All clever inventions.

But as Dr. Axe explains, we know from our experience as human inventors that novelties are nev...