Creationist offers $10,000 to anyone willing to challenge literal interpretation of Genesis in court

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I think of evolution in much the same way. Evolution is a "force" which creates: diversity, complexity, structure, meaningful change. These characteristics aren't an accident and are not based on probability, they are as integral to evolution as a ball rolling down a hill is to gravity.

This isn't always true, though. Evolution can be a reductive process too. To take a relatively simple example, the human little toe has shrunk down as the way our feet balance weight has changed. The number of toes hasn't changed, but one is dwindling, and in fact the last two phalanges in our feet are usually fused together, as opposed to the more mobile unfused variety found in other ape and primate species. Now, this all still has a use for our particular kind of locomotion, but it's still an evolutionary change that removes something, rather than grants something new.