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saliriagwu

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Briefly explain why critics did not readily accept the Darwin-Wallace theory of natural selection. What possibilities did they ignore?

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What do scientists mean when they say that a flood is a 100-year flood?
 A)A flood of that magnitude will occur once every 100 years.
 B)Every year there is a 1 chance of a flood of a certain magnitude occurring.
 C)There isn't enough information to determine how frequently flooding occurs.
 D)Every year, there is a 10 chance of a flood of a certain magnitude occurring.
 E)The last time a flood of that size occurred was 100 years ago.



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Answer to Question 1

Critics thought that a partially evolved eye or wing would not be useful, and therefore the eye and the wing could not have evolved but must have been created as a whole. They ignored the possibility that the eye or wing was used for something else before it evolved to where it is today. For example, a wing might have been used for stability.

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