Little Victories And A Large Loss

[摘要] The creationists in the US are changing tack. They posit a new theory called ‘intelligent design’, which they are pushing for inclusion in school biology curricula. They maintain their cry that evolution is no more than a theory, but this is just playing with words. Evolution is a theory in the sense that we can't run an experiment to see if human beings develop from an ancestor that resembles an ape, but there is enough circumstantial evidence for evolution being the only sensible way of describing how the world that we know came about. We can watch what happens to white moths in sooty landscapes, and bacteria exposed to antibiotics, and we know about the genetic code. Evolution looks like a good explanation to me. There is no evidence for intelligent design or its intelligent designer, other than a failure of imagination — and there is no way of testing it at all.

[学科分类] 卫生学