Biological evolution - what a beginner needs to know
Biological evolution - what a beginner needs to know
What we need is not the will to believe but the will to find out.
Bertrand Russell
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for
reflection.
Henri Poincare
Common sense is essential to science, but without scientific knowledge common sense can mislead.
Distinguish between science and apologetics. Without a good science background it's easy to confuse the two. Scientific evidence relies on experiment, not simply logic and rhetoric. Science restricts itself to natural explanations (don't infer that the material world is all there is). Incompleteness is a strength of science, not a weakness.
Some sources claim that evolution is a "theory in crisis" or that it is "controversial". Evolution has been accepted by the scientific community since the 1870's. Surveys of professional literature show evolutionary research to be thriving.