Since
the author believes in evolution — as do I — I invite her to consider this: Each fetus goes through more or less the evolutionary steps that humankind has gone through.
Not exact matches
This article implies that you can not
believe in atoms and the wonder of
evolution without being atheist or non-Christian, which is simply not true (I feel more theistic
in a biochem class than I do talking to close - minded «Christian» creationist idiots, interestingly enough for the same reasons the
author does).
now, you can try and try to show that indeed, no intelligent person does nt
believe in evolution as you have defined it, namely necessarily excluding any external entity To which I would simply point to the scores of scientists who
believe in ID / Theistic
evolution, also including Francis Collins the leader of the Human Genome Project and the
author of «The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief»
Many scientists
believe in both god AND
evolution, like Ken Miller, biology professor, textbook
author, and key trial for the teaching of
evolution in the Dover trial... who is also a devout and practicing Catholic.
«We
believe the Earth and Venus had similar starts
in terms of their atmospheric
evolution,» said Kane, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at SF State and lead
author of the study published online today.
Harvard's Steven Pinker, the celebrated
author of The Blank Slate and an expert on the
evolution of language and the mind, addressed that point
in an interview
in New Scientist magazine: «People, including me, would rather
believe that significant human biological
evolution stopped between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, before the races diverged, which would ensure that racial and ethnic groups are biologically equivalent.»
I think this is an important conversation to be having with Amazon, as I
believe this sort of «virtual watercooler» type of interaction between readers and
authors is a natural
evolution in the concept of the book and is one which many
authors will push heavily for.