Posted on 07/27/2005 6:30:56 AM PDT by PurpleMountains
The spate of stories about school boards considering modifying their policies regarding biology textbooks and how they deal with evolution has obviously reignited my interest in this argument. Recently I have read and reread books and articles about evolution, and I would like to explain more about what is being discovered and what I think it all means.
There are two kinds of evolution: microevolution and macroevolution. Microevolution refers to very small changes in the forms of living creatures that are inherited and passed on. No-one seriously questions that this is a fact. Macroevolution (the major part of Darwin’s concept) maintains that major changes and even the appearance of new species is the result of the accumulation of tiny changes that appear at random over huge periods of time. Darwinists go on to maintain that humans and all other animal life forms have common ancestors leading back to one original life form. I have come to believe that macroevolution is nonsense, although for a good part of my life I accepted this nonsense because it was taught as a fact in my biology textbooks.
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Professor Wilcox,
I enjoyed your weblog. I feel the same way sometimes. Although I didn't agree totally with everything you said in your articles (meaning, not this one in particular), I felt a need to respect your opinions. Thanks for putting into words some of the things I feel in my heart.
I wish I had a prof like you in college.
Ping for later
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