Evolutionary Explanations: Substance, Seasoning, or Storytelling?April 7, 2009 — A scientific theory should explain why certain phenomena in nature are the way they are. This layman’s view, though simplistic, expects that a theory should also predict new phenomena before they are observed. In many science reports on evolution, however, one finds evolutionary theory tacked on as an explanation after the fact, when the theory had virtually nothing to do with the research or the conclusions (for examples a year ago, see 04/04/2008). The evolutionary interpretation also begs the question that it is the only explanation adequate to explain the phenomena...