08.29.06
Crackpot Christians?? Part 2
Darwin to Hitler: as usual, creationists confuse the issue. But in general the question is not evolution at all, but the way in which the theory of natural selection poisons the cultural atmosphere. If you affirm that natural selection can produce all the complexities of evolution then you let loose a monster in the form of a false valuation.
Unfortunately, the show fails to acknowledge that these two scientists are members of a small minority. It also fails to acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of America’s scientists find the theory of evolution convincing, because it works.
Works? Yes, as Jared Diamond has observed: “Without evolution, one has no chance of understanding the living world around us, human uniqueness, genetic diseases and their possible cures, and genetically engineered crops and their possible dangers.” [Ernst Mayr, What Evolution Is, pp. ix-x] Or, as the highly esteemed Ernst Mayr observed: “Evolution is the most important concept in biology. There is not a single Why? question in biology that can be answered adequately without a consideration of evolution.” [Ibid, xiii]