In his book, The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins makes a powerful case for evolution, while debunking the all too common misconceptions regarding the role of “chance” in evolution. Dawkins shows that evolution is a fundamentally non-random process. Chance is important in that it provides a kind of “fuel” to this process, but it is the…
Evolution Creation
Is creationism a science? Is evolution just a “theory”?
An Introduction to the Evolution versus Creation Debate
The evolution / creation debate hinges largely on a disagreement regarding the nature of science and scientific theories. Before getting into that, however, it will be important to address the common misconception that evolution and atheism are somehow two sides of the same coin. After that we will define the critical terms in this debate…
Evolution: Converging Lines of Evidence
The strength of any theory comes not from a single measurement or a single confirmed prediction, but from the theory’s many predictions being confirmed by many independent tests, samples, and methods. Often, attacks on evolutionary theory take the form of showing that some measurement technique is not infallible, or that some measurement technique depends on…
A Response to Locke’s, “The Scientific Case Against Evolution”
A reader recently forwarded a link to Robert Locke’s short article entitled The Scientific Case Against Evolution.1The author, while claiming not to be a creationist, certainly writes in the curious even-evolutionists-now-realize style so common among creationist writers. The article, while not offering new arguments (and not pretending to) does do a good job of succinctly…
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