Is Natural Selection the greatest scientific discovery ever?

I had just finished watching the 100 greatest discoveries in science series on the Discovery Science channel.

The first place goes to Charles Darwin with Natural Selection

The second and third place consecutively go to Einstein with General Relativity in second and E=MC^2 in the third position.

The fourth is The Periodic Table of Elements by Medelev.

What gives me a headache is why no Electromagnetism in top 10?

On topic, do you agree with the first choice?

Speak your mind.

Why are they even trying to "rank" scientific discoveries? Isn't the entirety of science intertwined, and thus isn't the interaction between all of its constituent fields and their discoveries responsible for giving us our current mix of technological capabilities?

I believe it goes to this discovery actually

I believe it goes to this discovery actually

Serraph105

i don't know it being the greatest scientific discovery ever,it surely is one of the best ever,when you think about it,it makes sense

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I believe it goes to this discovery actually

Ravenchrome

Sounds like a good show, when did it play??

Look like I will have to use the search function on my cable box.

Two thoughts on this:

1. Scientific discoveries build on each other, so I don't see how you can rate one as greater than another.

2. The periodic table of the elements wasn't even a discovery; it was an invention, unless they're referring to the discovery that atoms with the same number of valence electrons exhibit similar behaviors.

1. Fire 2. Wheel 3. Black female underwearsfunsohng

Well, the discovery of how to make fire is not exactly scientific.

The discovery of what fire is and what causes fire are scientific discoveries.

what about the scoratic method

[QUOTE="Serraph105"][QUOTE="funsohng"]1. Fire 2. Wheel 3. Black female underwearsfunsohng

yeah well

[QUOTE="funsohng"]1. Fire 2. Wheel 3. Black female underwearsRavenchrome

Well, the discovery of how to make fire is not exactly scientific.

The discovery of what fire is and what causes fire are scientific discoveries.

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[QUOTE="funsohng"]1. Fire 2. Wheel 3. Black female underwearsfunsohng

Well, the discovery of how to make fire is not exactly scientific.

The discovery of what fire is and what causes fire are scientific discoveries.

science man8)

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[QUOTE="funsohng"]1. Fire 2. Wheel 3. Black female underwearsfunsohng

Well, the discovery of how to make fire is not exactly scientific.

The discovery of what fire is and what causes fire are scientific discoveries.

Sorry if I misunderstood.

:P

Pharmacology imoMafiree

biology it self is more important

[QUOTE="Mafiree"]Pharmacology imoVader993

biology it self is more important

And with good reasons as well.

The human genome. num 1

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[QUOTE="Mafiree"]Pharmacology imoRavenchrome

biology it self is more important

And with good reasons as well.

then physics is probably the greatest scientific discovery ever we can thank the babylonians for that

How the **** is the periodic table of the elements a discovery - it's an invention!?

[QUOTE="funsohng"][QUOTE="Ravenchrome"] Those stuffs are technological innovations.

Well, the discovery of how to make fire is not exactly scientific.

The discovery of what fire is and what causes fire are scientific discoveries.

Ravenchrome

Sorry if I misunderstood.

:P

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[QUOTE="funsohng"] fine geez why are you guys so uptight today D:funsohng

Sorry if I misunderstood.

:P

those things make us more horny thus leading to more babies:P

F=ma was probably the greatest scientific discovery. That simple little equation is essentially the foundation of all of the natural sciences.gameguy6700

I'm going to go with Copernicus' discovery that the planets revolve around the sun, not Earth. Why was this important? One man upset the thinking of an entire society.The simple fact that this Truth was greater than perception, humbled us and made us think twice about our assumptions about our world. It pissed the people in charge off and loosened the dogmatic choke-hold that religion and ignorance fostered. It paved the way for the scientific method being the paramount tool to learn about our world and how it works.

Notable discoveries; penacillin, the cells of a cork plant, natural selection and, of course, E=MC2.

The greatest IMO are the heavenly bodies or anything that relates to astronomy.

No... that'll end up being the cure for cancer or AIDS. Natural selection was a ground-breaking discovery... but honestly, the creation of the theory of evolution is far greater in terms of achievement.

E/m= c2= dtE/dtc = 1 - U/c2 - v2/2c2 P=√ħG/c3≈ 1.6163×10−35m = black female underwears.

pure. science.

amateurs

Theories are notdiscoveries.

No... that'll end up being the cure for cancer or AIDS. Natural selection was a ground-breaking discovery... but honestly, the creation of the theory of evolution is far greater in terms of achievement.

foxhound_fox

1. Fire. Period.

2. Leverage. Try to argue that ****!

3. Penicillin. Is that a discovery?

3. Penicillin. Is that a discovery?

clayron

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3. Penicillin. Is that a discovery?

foxhound_fox

I wouldn't call natural selection a "discovery". Scientific breakthrough maybe but not really a "discovery". But I don't make the rules. General relativity is a discovery, gravity was a discovery, no so much natural selection....

I guess it's a discovery in science so I suppose.

It would probable go to antibiotics....

The biology lover in me says yes, but the chemistry side is raging over the lack of atomic theory not mentioned in the OP.

No cause it isn't real science.

No cause it isn't real science.

CHOASXIII

hmm not really. Regardless of whether I completely agree or disagree with it, its not that groundbreaking. GazaAli