1) 'It's just a theory.'
2) 'There isn't enough time for evolution to have happened.'
3) 'Randomness doesn't produce order.'
4) 'No species gives birth to a member of a different species.'
5) 'The odds of atoms producing a human being by pure chance are [insert exceedingly large number here] to one.'
What all of these have in common is the display of profound ignorance as to what biological evolution actually is. No one needs to be a biologist to grasp the meaning of evolution, any more than one has to be an astronomer to get it through their skull that stars are really, REALLY far away. The only excuse for imagining that the above questions are even remotely a problem for evolution seems to be a combination of willful ignorance and intellectual torpor.
Boru
2) 'There isn't enough time for evolution to have happened.'
3) 'Randomness doesn't produce order.'
4) 'No species gives birth to a member of a different species.'
5) 'The odds of atoms producing a human being by pure chance are [insert exceedingly large number here] to one.'
What all of these have in common is the display of profound ignorance as to what biological evolution actually is. No one needs to be a biologist to grasp the meaning of evolution, any more than one has to be an astronomer to get it through their skull that stars are really, REALLY far away. The only excuse for imagining that the above questions are even remotely a problem for evolution seems to be a combination of willful ignorance and intellectual torpor.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
