Exactly right. If you truly are a "seeker of truth" then you have to stick your head pretty far into the ground to ignore this. Read the book.Every day, hundreds of observations and experiments pour into the hopper of the scientific literature… and every fact that has something to do with evolution confirms its truth. Every fossil that we find, every DNA molecule that we sequence, every organ system that we dissect supports the idea that species evolved from common ancestors. Despite innumerable possible explanations that could prove evolution untrue, we don’t have a single one. We don’t find mammals in Precambrian rocks, humans in the same layers as dinosaurs, or any other fossils out of evolutionary order. DNA sequencing supports the evolutionary relationships of species originally deduced from the fossil record. And, as natural selection predicts, we find no species with adaptations that benefit only a different species. We do find dead genes and vestigial organs, incomprehensible under the idea of special creation. Despite a million chances to be wrong, evolution always comes up right. That is as close as we can get to a scientific fact.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
You want the truth? Read this book
Just thought I'd pass along a pitch made by The Bad Astronomer. It's a quote from Why Evolution is True by biologist Jerry Coyne (from pages 222-223 of the book):
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