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Evolution: "Overwhelming and Compelling"
January 03, 2008 3:55 PM
Science correspondent Ned Potter blogs:
The National Academy of Sciences has released a book called "Science, Evolution and Creationism" -- a strongly-worded answer to the Creationist movement and the doubts about Darwin that many people express in polls and elsewhere.
"Evolution is both a fact and a process that accounts for the diversity of life on Earth," it says.
"Scientists treat the occurrence of evolution as one of the most securely established of scientific facts," says an opening letter. Later: "The scientific evidence supporting biological evolution continues to grow at a rapid pace."
It describes in detail the discovery of Tiktaalik, the four-legged fish fossil from the Canadian Arctic that appears to be the missing link between primitive fish and animals that walked up onto land. And it argues that without an understanding of evolution, such threats as the SARS virus would be impossible to fight.
As for the Intelligent Design movement, which lost a court battle in Pennsylvania but is now arguing in Florida for equal time in schools, the report says "the pressure to downplay evolution or emphasize nonscientific alternatives in public schools compromises science education."
Continue reading on Ned's Science and Society blog here.
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The Intelligent Design movement does not dispute evolution, the changing of species over time. What they contest is that no one can scientifically explain where the first cell came from and where did the material for the "Big Bang" come from?
Posted by: Paula | Jan 3, 2008 6:57:13 PM
Evolution never happened! Why else do u think the majority of the WORLD has been Christain for the past like FOREVER?
Posted by: Sarah | Jan 3, 2008 8:45:06 PM
In future stories, please don't display a Catholic procession to represent Creationism. Creationism's strict interpretation doesn't not represent the Church's position and many Catholics find evolution to be an affirmation of their faith.
Posted by: M. Maloney | Jan 3, 2008 9:31:47 PM
The universe and the earth being billions of years old is not contrary to the bible. God created Adam and Eve. His first commandment was to be fruitful and multiply. In order to be fruitful and multiply one's needs to be of an age that can have children. So, if God created Adam and Eve with the appearance of age, why not the earth? Remember, you got to have faith.
Posted by: Harry | Jan 4, 2008 4:15:59 PM
Sarah, you need to get your facts straight. The most people in the world reside in China, India, Africa, SW Asia - christians are in the minority.
this is why all kinds of creation myths should be taught together in religious studies.
you need to accept that your Christian God is shrinking, not only in the eyes of scientists, but also in the eyes of all the other world religions.
Posted by: San Pedro de Martir | Jan 6, 2008 10:03:33 PM
Saying that the universe came into
existence through the process of
evolution is ten trillion times
harder to believe than if one said
that the Oxford dictionary is the result
of a random explosion of words.
Posted by: Dona | Jan 13, 2008 12:02:02 PM
Science Doesn't have all of the answers to every question in the universe. Religion gives people a crutch to lean on while science pieces data together and comes up with answers. Science doesn't rely on myths , stories legends etc. to come up with a theory. The core problem is science is chipping away at belief systems that people hold dear to their heart . As evolution gets more and more accepted ,the Bible, creation, religion in general are questioned by thinking, reasoning humans. Personally I'm fine with saying, I don't know where we came from and that there may be a higher power but not one you can prey to! Watching people like Pat Robertson, Benny Hinn, Rod Parsley, Paula White, Ken Copeland and all the other so-called anointed ones, on tv, is enough proof for me that the God of the Bible doesn't exist if these are some of His chosen leaders! It seems to me that people that aren't open minded,thinking human beings just haven't evolved..........YET!!!!!!
Posted by: Jan | Feb 14, 2008 9:55:38 PM
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