Steven Seward wrote:
I have no problem with evolutionary theory in general, but when people say we've "solved the problem" in such a soft and uncertain science as evolution, they are getting way ahead of themselves. Perhaps that language was inserted by the editors of Yahoo News.
They didn't solve "the" problem, they solved "a" problem, one that Darwin couldn't solve because genetics and most of biochemistry hadn't yet been invented. There are lots of unsolved individual problems to be solved within the general title of the theory of evolution, but there are many that have been solved. That is how the theory receives further support.