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Why Believe in a Creator?: Perspectives on Evolution |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / THE DEBATE OVER ORIGINS: CREATIONISM OR EVOLUTION? |
| Author: Loren Haarsma |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 5,637 Words, 38,945 Characters |
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Modern understandings of quantum mechanics and chaos theory seriously undermine the extrapolation from Newton's mechanics to metaphysical determinism. Evolution, though in flux like any scientific theory, is still the reigning paradigm in biology. People who dispute evolution's philosophical extrapolations therefore have two alternatives: criticize the metaphysical reasoning, or criticize the scientific credibility of the theory itself. This is the driving force behind and source of variability among creationist perspectives on evolution.
WHAT DOES 'EVOLUTION' MEAN?
Evolution has taken on a variety of meanings. Confusion over these meanings often fuels the controversy. Microevolution, macroevolution, and evolutionism must be distinguished.
Microevolution is the study of how indiv...
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...n," Technology Review, Feb./March 1994, 23--32. A highly influential but controversial book that presents an evolutionist account of such origins is Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design (New York: Norton, 1987).
FOOTNOTE: 14.Phillip Johnson, Darwin on Trial, 2nd edition (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993), 210.
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