04.05.09
What counts as evidence for evolution? The eonic effect
What counts as evidence for evolution?
I don’t like creationism either, but this standard is suspicious, and untrustworthy. Coyne is obsessed with debunking religion, making his statements a poor guide to the evidence.
My strategy here was to use as evidence for evolution only those data that rule out the most widely-accepted alternative scenario, i.e., some form of creationism. Similarities of molecular and morphological trees don’t necessarily rule out the action of a celestial designer. He/She/It could have used similar genes to make similar organisms.
There is a dimension to evolution beyond genetics, visible in the eonic effect.