Evolution Debate Guide
From PhiloWiki
CBS News reports the following results of a 2005 poll on beliefs in evolution and intelligent design:
"Most Americans do not accept the theory of evolution. Instead, 51 percent of Americans say God created humans in their present form, and another three in 10 say that while humans evolved, God guided the process. Just 15 percent say humans evolved, and that God was not involved.
~ANOTHER VIEW~
Very, very scary stuff...How is it possible that 51% of Americans say that God created humans? Another poll of the literacy rates in America might not go amiss if this is true.
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Abiogenesis (the origin of life)
- What is the origin of life?
- Could the prebiotic soup have been the origin of life?
- Could random chance start life?
- Was the Miller experiment proven false?
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Natural selection
- Evolution is just a theory.
- Does evolution violate the Second Law of Thermodynamics?
- Does the rate of decay of the Earth's magnetic field disprove evolution?
- Does self-organization contribute to evolution?
- Could natural selection be part of the origin of life?
- How do complex structures develop by chance?
- How could the complex cell have evolved?
- How could the eye have evolved?
- Can small changes within a species give rise to new species through the process of macroevolution?
- How did the feather evolve?
- How did cilia evolve?
- How did bacterial flagella evolve?
- How did the mechanisms for blood-clotting evolve?
- How can positive change result from harmful mutations?
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Paleontology
- How does evolution explain the lack of transitional forms in the fossil record?
- Was the Archaeopteryx a transitional form?
- How could millions of new species emerge so quickly during the Cambrian explosion?
- Don't fake fossils discredit evolutionary theory?
- Why did dinosaurs get so big?
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Embryology
- Were Haeckel's embryos faked?
- How does embryology support evolution?
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Morphology
- How does the homology of life forms (animals share similar bone structures) prove common ancestry?
- How are vestigal structures explained in evolution?
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Genetics
- Does gene duplication contribute to evolution?
- How does highly-similar genetic coding gice evidence of common ancestry?
- How did DNA evolve naturally?
- How does evolution account for the amount of complex specified information in DNA?
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Speciation
- Does Darwin's tree of life reflect evolution?
- Does the change in butterfly colors indicate that new species can evolve?
- Does punctuated evolution explain the appearance of new species?
- How can mutation rates drive relatively fast evolutionary changes?
- Why do evolutionists rely on computer simulation as evidence?
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Mind and soul
- How does evolution explain consciousness?
- How does evolution explain the mind?
- How does evolution explain the soul?
- How can a purely physical consciousness have free will?
- Are memory and learning influenced by morphogenetic fields?
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Religious implications
- Does a belief in evolution make belief in God impossible?
