Heated debate on evolution with brother

[bennyboy]

Just what 'natural' alternatives' to evolutionary theory are there? Do tell.

Extended Evolution And I didn't say alternative to evolution, I said alternative to neo-Darwinism.

See the beauty of science is that ideas, and even bodies of ideas, evolve.  New information and observations serve as evolutionary pressure-- they render some ideas obsolete and lead to new ones.

This is why religious ideas fail.  They do not evolve.  They do not respond to information.  They will never stop trying to do the semantic shell game of fitting new observations into theories that NEVER explained them well-- because when the truth value of an idea is based on the authority from which it comes (either God or someone directly inspired by God), then that authority comes into doubt. But you can't doubt God, or the entire religion fails.

Science doesn't have that problem, because it isn't based on authority, and it's not an institution which subscribes to a dogma.