The Arguments for Evolution
Sunday, February 13th, 2005One of the things that frustrates me about my Bible Doctrines textbook is its lengthy assault against evolution. Apart from some serious disagreements that I have with him over his reasoning (for example, his argument that the second law of thermodynamics invalidates evolution*), my biggest frustration is his sources. It seems that he hasn’t updated the chapter–or his sources–significantly in over 30 years. Don’t you think that in 30 years the evolutionists would have come up with an answer to your concerns?
Well, they have. John Derbyshire over at the National Review online has answers to some of the recurring arguments of Creationism. Definitely worth reading. An example:
(5) “There is no such thing as half an eye/wing/lung etc.” Yes there is, all over the place, as biologists have been pointing out till they are blue in the face. The common scallop has little light-sensitive patches all round its mouth, for instance. An entire menagerie of animals — frogs, squirrels, even snakes — has rudimentary gliding webs of various levels of sophistication — half wings.
They say that in the realm of the blind the one-eyed man is king. A better way to say “survival of the fittest” is “survival of the least unfit,” a phrase I have to credit to austroblogger, a commenter on Libertarian Girl.
Anyways, read Derbyshire’s whole post.
