Less than 1/3 of americans believe that evolution is fact. To win elections, if this issue is important, to understand that evolution is fantasy is a decided advantage.
I’m not a Bible literalist (I think the six days of the creation could refer to periods of time rather than literal days, for example, since you can’t very well have a day or a week before the sun and moon are created).
And I believe (because I see with my own eyes) that you can have partial evolution, where birds grow longer beaks or dogs are bred for particular functions, for example).
But I think the theory of General Evolution is statistically highly improbable, if not impossible, without some sort of help beyond blind material chance. Saving the theory by positing an infinite number of universes, so that at least one of them can get it right, improves the statistics, but it also seems extremely improbable. Why on earth should we believe that? What is the evidence? What would Occam think of such a theory?
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