I don’t understand why you’re being accused of scraping the bottom of the barrell. This is an onion article, after all. Also, the question regarding Christians and Creationists is pointless--only christians believe in creation ”science.” The funniest part about all of this is that there is far more tangible evidence for evolution than there is for gravity. Gravity is still a ”theory,” actually. Those that support creation would do well to read more Gould. His strongest argument being that arguing science vs creationism is mixing paradigms. Science depends inherently on its fallabilit ...
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Interesting idea. However, I can’t accept a good deal of this simply b/c you state that ”Evolution by definition implies a destination.” and then so forth. Yes, the dictionary will tell you that evolution involves point A and point B, with some way to get from one to the other. This is a very dangerous slope, though, when considering the theory of evolution and Darwin’s natural selection. Far too many Creationists or ID proponents are comfortable with evolution only on the basis of a very wrong interpretation of this simple and elegant theory. Evolution has no purpose. It doesn’t strive t ...
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