10 Questions, and Answers, About Evolution

[pokerfan]

“Ten questions to ask your biology teacher about evolution,” a document by Jonathan Wells, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based group that advocates intelligent design, aims to highlight the weaknesses in evolutionary theory. Here are his questions, along with responses compiled by the National Center for Science Education.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/us/WEB-tenquestions.html?ei=5124&en=0bc6e4bfe40c21dd&ex=1377316800&adxnnl=1&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1219691091-VmAsoEl1vD/QYE3v5fzoNQ">10 Questions, and Answers, About Evolution

[Wilber_Stool]

1. Got this from a thread in GD.

Here's a good read from the NYT about a teacher caught in this very conundrum.

[Beregond2]

2. You are never going to convince frightened people

to accept a truth they find threatening. The change will come when evolution is presented to them as supportive of faith; which it certainly can be, and is, by many denominations. Unfortunately, conservative church leaders would rather exploit people's fear.

[Scribe]

3. "Intelligent Design" just adds an inexplicable step. Who designed the designer?

Ultimately the process leads back to an uncaused cause.

[pokerfan]

4. 'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.'

'Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.' (I had not need of that hypothesis.)

Laplace's reply to Napoleon regarding why he had not mentioned a creator in his five volume 'Mécanique Céleste' (Celestial Mechanics).