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It seems that creationism or intelligent design is gaining ground on evolution theory. Usually this was only an issue in the US, but it also seems to happen in other countries as well. But does creationism have any valid grounds.
When I look at the list of retorts as published by Scientific American I do not see any. The question is whether evolution theory has any big problems. I do not thinks so. If there are any problems they are in the details. And at that point Intelligent Design (ID) is invoked. And ID is only necessary to speed up evolution at certain stages. And at those point information can be obtained from the Holoverse in order to make a better evolutionary decision. But are there really those points?
An overview of objections against evolution:
- It is only a theory - but that is with everything in science. This is about the method that science uses for everything, so not valid;
- Circular reasoning (the fittest survive and survivors are the fittest) - it is a very gradual process, where the fittest can betters survive. This micro-eveolution has been corroborated by science;
- the theory is not testable - the same would be true for astronomy. Evolution is not something that you can re-do in the lab. The theory however still makes predictions that can be tested;
- The theory is in doubt in the scientific community - no evidence for this can be found through an analysis of the literature. But that is not to say that there are no trouble-spots;
- There are strong disagreements - yes there are, but not on evolution itself;
- Why are there still monkeys - it is about splintering and not replacing;
- First life is a problem - that is indeed a difficult question, but it has nothing to do with evolution itself;