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Richard Dawkins: How Could Anyone “Possibly Doubt the Fact of Evolution”

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Evolutionists like to say that there are mountains of evidence for evolution, but what is the best evidence? What would make a creationist think twice? Twenty five seconds into this video evolutionist Richard Dawkins answers this question. His killer evidence is the congruence between the genes of different plants and animals. Compare the genes across a range of species and you’ll see a “perfect hierarchy, a perfect family tree.” In fact, you’ll see the same result for evolutionary trees using just single genes—the so-called gene trees. It works “with every gene you do separately.”  Read more

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Why is this a controversy? Evolution supports Intelligent Design more than it does neo-Darwinism. After all, it takes a lot more intelligence to design a complex functional system which evolves to adapt to new circumstances than to design a static, non-adaptable system. If Cornelius has any problem with evolution (change of biological systems over time) than he has officially switched sides from ID to creationism.nightlight
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Dawkin's nightmare.. lurking just around the corner: http://www.icr.org/article/8009/JGuy
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