Bird-hipped dinosaurs (image: Natural History Museum, London)
It is one of the great questions of the past 150 years.
Did God or evolution drive the emergence of life in all its resplendent variety?
This blog, the US education system, and even American politics have to a degree all become dominated by the debate at various times, which goes to the heart of our world view and our ideas of where we, and all other forms of life, came from.
But I’ve just come across an intriguing piece of research that may, to coin a phrase, put an evolutionary cat among the believing flock of creation scientists, many of whom believe in the literal account of Genesis.
One scientist has decided to use creation science to test the validity of evolution.
Because, he says, if it turns out that creation science proves evolution, then by its own logic, it will have to reject its own canon of research that previously denied it.
It’s a clever idea, because it once again puts evidence, rather than faith, at the centre of the debate...
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...Will any creationists consider the idea that even some of their own evidence-gathering techniques may point to the veracity of evolution?
