Darwin Proven Wrong?

[Mister Agenda]

Pretty interesting that we've come to the point in science where the scientific community is generally accepting an invisible and undetectable "force" driving the acceleration of the expansion of the universe. I think it's cool. I'm looking forward to what comes next.

It may be picking a nit, but if it were undetectable, we wouldn't be aware of it. Detecting pretty much anything is a matter of observing its effects on the environment. Dark energy has been detected, we just don't know much about it yet.

There is at least one very interesting hypothesis, though: virtual pressure, the idea that in the vast distances between galaxies, the pressure of the virtual particles in the space between them grows greater the farther apart they get.

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The issue I was posing was that genetic mutation may not be responsible for evolution and differentiation, so yes, it is a question about whether we understand how it works.

There's nothing about epigenetics that implies evolution is not natural selection acting on genetic mutations. Genes are what we inherit. Epigenetics is amazing, but it doesn't directly cause speciation.

Perhaps we're having an issue regarding semantics?

"un·de·tect·a·ble
synonyms: unnoticeable, imperceptible, invisible"

Is it not invisible? I would say that observing effect is not the same as observing the cause (the force) itself. I was agreeing with everything else you were saying. How was I being disingenuous?

Yes. But it's not unnoticeable. We noticed it.