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PEOPLE ARE BEING INDOCTRINATED RATHER THAN BEING
INFORMED AND EDUCATED ABOUT EVOLUTION.
IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO DISCUSS THE ASSUMPTIONS,
THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF EVOLUTION AS A THEORY.
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT PROBLEMS WITH EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IN
AREAS SUCH AS THE ORIGIN OF LIFE, ORIGIN OF GENETIC CODE,
ORIGIN OF MULTICELLULAR LIFE
ORIGIN OF MAJOR PHYLA AT THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION.
SYSTEMATIC GAPS IN THE FOSSIL RECORD,
EVEN IN SITUATIONS WHERE MILLIONS OF SPECIMENS ARE
AVAILABLE FOR EXAMINATION, DEVELOPMENT OF IRREDUCIBLY
COMPLEX MOLECULAR MACHINES AND DEVELOPMENT OF COMPLEX ORGANS.
IF WE ARE TO DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN
STUDENTS, IT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE TO EXPOSE THEM TO SCIENTIFIC
CRITIQUES OF EVOLUTION.
IN TEACHING EVOLUTION, IT IS COMMON PRACTICE TO CONFLATE
SMALL SCALE, INTERMEDIATE SCALE AND LARGE SCALE EVOLUTION.
THAT IS, MICRO, MACRO AND HYPER-EVOLUTION.
BECAUSE OF THIS, STUDENTS ARE TYPICALLY PRESENTED EVIDENCE
FOR MICRO-EVOLUTION AND THEN LED TO ASSUME THAT THIS PROVES
MACRO-EVOLUTION AND HYPER-EVOLUTION.
THIS METHODOLOGY HIDES THE FACT THAT THE EXTRAPOLATION FROM
MICRO-EVOLUTION TO HYPER-EVOLUTION IS BASED
ON METAPHYSICAL NATURALISM.
THAT IS ATHEIST FAITH, RATHER THAN BEING EMPIRICALLY PROVED.
IN HIS BOOK, "ICONS OF EVOLUTION,"
BIOLOGIST JONATHAN WELLS SHOWS THAT BIOLOGY TEXTBOOKS
SYSTEMATICALLY MISREPRESENT EVIDENCE FOR EVOLUTION,
POSSIBLY TO MAKE A WEAK CASE LOOK STRONGER.
FOR INSTANCE, THE 1953 MILLER UREY EXPERIMENT HAS CLAIMED TO
SHOW HOW LIFE'S BUILDING BLOCKS COULD FORM ON EARLY EARTH,
WHERE IT IS NOW KNOWN THAT THE EXPERIMENT DOES NOT WORK
WHEN THE CORRECT ATMOSPHERE IS USED.
MANY TEXTBOOKS USE DRAWINGS OF SIMILARITIES IN
VERTEBRATE EMBRYOS AS EVIDENCE FOR COMMON ANCESTRY,
WHERE IT IS NOW KNOWN THAT THE DRAWINGS WERE FAKED BY
THE SCIENTIST HAECKEL.
MANY TEXTBOOKS USE STAGED PICTURES OF PEPPERED MOTHS
GLUED ONTO TREE TRUNKS AS EVIDENCE OF NATURAL SELECTION
WHEN IT IS NOW KNOWN THAT THE MOTHS DON'T NORMALLY
REST ON TREE TRUNKS.
AND TEXTBOOKS DON'T DISCUSS THE FACT THAT FOSSIL
EVIDENCE OF THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION CONTRADICTS WHAT YOU
WOULD EXPECT FROM DARWINIAN EVOLUTION.