Did Darwin Tell the Truth?

Abstract

Charles Darwin is one of the most widely revered and enduringly controversial figures in the history of science. Both are exceptional feats for such a mild-­mannered gentleman. Much of the controversy surrounding Darwin concerns the presumptive truthfulness of his evolutionary theory. Darwin's ideas about evolution were so ground-breaking that, more than one hundred and fifty years after the publication of On the Origin of Species (1859), many people still refuse to accept Darwin's basic precepts (McGettigan, 2010).

Keywords: Science, Truth, Postmodern, Theory, Social Science, Evolution, Biology, Research, Paradigm