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Throughare discussions of The Origin of Species I am becoming more and moreskeptical about it as a scientific work. As I think about it, I realize that I don’t really questions things I learnin the context of a science class. The Origin of Species really reminds me of ancient philosopherswho would just observe and think about things and come up with logical explanationsand call it science.  That isreally what Darwin was doing.  Inmy biology class we are reading a book called Beak of the Finch and itis about many different scientist who actually conduct experiments to prove anddisprove aspects of evolution. Many people think of evolution as a “soft science”, meaning that it ismore about stories than experiments and proof.  I feel like viewing evolution as a narrative makes it lessinteresting, making it into a topic that can be easily dismissed.