Evolution
The science service Newswise reports that scientists across the nation are enraged at Bush’s recent statement that the mainstream scientific theory of evolution should be presented side-by-side with the competing doctrine of intelligent design. In the September 17-23 issue of New Scientist magazine, eminent scientist Richard Dawkins says, “Darwinian natural selection can produce an uncanny illusion of design. An engineer would be hard put to decide whether a bird or a plane was the more aerodynamically elegant.” As someone who is fascinated by science but largely self-taught, I don’t understand the whole conflict, because surely evolution merely describes a process. In other words, it’s how God did it.
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