Monday, February 21, 2022

Creation Moment 2/22/2022 - "Common Misuse"

I have seen the foolish taking root... Job 5:3
 
".. another common misuse of evolutionary ideas: namely, the idea
that some trait must have evolved merely because we can imagine a scenario under which possession of that trait would have been advantageous to fitness... Such forays into evolutionary explanation amount ultimately to storytelling... it is not enough to construct a story about how the trait might have evolved in response to a given selection pressure; rather, one must provide some sort of evidence that it really did so evolve. This is a very tall order
.... "
Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012