Editing Imre Lakatos (section)

====Darwin's theory====
In his 1973 Scientific Method Lecture 1<ref>Published in ''For and Against Method: Imre Lakatos and Paul Feyerabend'' by Matteo Motterlini (ed.), University of Chicago Press, 1999.</ref> at the London School of Economics, he also claimed that "nobody to date has yet found a demarcation criterion according to which Darwin can be described as scientific".

Almost 20 years after Lakatos's 1973 challenge to the scientificity of [[Charles Darwin|Darwin]], in her 1991 ''The Ant and the Peacock'', LSE lecturer and ex-colleague of Lakatos, [[Helena Cronin]], attempted to establish that Darwinian theory was empirically scientific in respect of at least being supported by evidence of likeness in the diversity of life forms in the world, explained by descent with modification. She wrote that
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our usual idea of corroboration as requiring the successful prediction of novel facts&nbsp;... Darwinian theory was not strong on temporally novel predictions.&nbsp;... however familiar the evidence and whatever role it played in the construction of the theory, it still confirms the theory.<ref>Cronin, H., ''The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today'', Cambridge University Press, 1993. pp. [https://books.google.com/books?id=y0wTY3z3nggC&q=%22For+darwinian+theory%2C+the+evidence%22 31–32].</ref>
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