al scientific perception, Kuhn describes an anomaly as "a phenomenon . . . for which his paradigm had not readied the investigator," and more, a phenomenon that can play "an essential role in preparing the way for perception of novelty" (57).
Unlike Genesis, Darwin's theory of evolution explained nature in terms of nature and not in terms of faith. From a scientific standpoint, Darwin's theories fulfilled Kuhn's conditions for a new scientific paradigm.
First is that class of facts that the paradigm has shown to be particularly revealing of the nature of things. By employing them in solving problems, the paradigm has made them worth determining both with more precision and in a larger variety of situations. . . . A second usual but smaller class of factual determinations is directed to those facts that, though often without much intrinsic interest can be compared directly with predictions from the paradigm theory. . . . The attempt to demonstrate agreement is a second type of normal experimental work, and it is even more obviously depen
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