Oh, no! Not Intelligent Design again!
Bill Hobbs links to a piece by ID proponent Steve Meyer. Meyer says that the fact of microevolution, variations within a species, is undisputed. The sticking point is macroevolution, the (presumed) formation of new species from the stock of other species. Even staunch evolutionists, says Meyer, know that the problem of macroevolution has never been solved, and that the actual dynamics of how macroevolution occurs (assuming it does occur at all) are as yet unknown. He gives cites.

Okay, I can't solve that problem one way or the other. But Meyer fails to see the hole in his own argument. That evolution theory may be false in some particulars, even major ones, does not mean that any other theory (such as ID) is correct. It may be useful for ID proponents to show where even evolution advocates admit that evolution theory comes up short, but that's all.

Failure to explain the origin of species through natural causes exclusively does not mean that the cause is supernatural.

by Donald Sensing, 1/28/2005 08:12:49 PM. Permalink |