Evolutionary studies answer the following questions, creationism (ID) does not. Genesis does not answer these scientific questions on how God
created. Credit for these lucid refutations of ID goes to Phil Porvaznik. Face it,
ID is as much a pseudoscience as phrenology. Without even considering the manifold evidences in geosciences, evolution is proven vis-a'-vis
biosciences on many levels.
The biological evidence for evolution fits into several categories: the unique universal phylogenetic tree of life, transitional forms and the fossil
record, past history of vestiges / atavisms, evidence from embryology, from biogeography and global distribution of species, from anatomical and
molecular paralogy / analogy, the molecular sequence evidence (cytochrome-c and pseudogenes), etc. Here are a few dozen questions taken from a
summary, that six-day creationists, or any creationist who opposes macroevolution and "common descent" would find difficult to answer. Again, to
answer "God did it" (although ultimately, theistic evolutionists agree) would not be a scientific explanation.
unique universal phylogenetic tree of life
Why do independently derived phylogenetic trees of all organisms match each other with an extremely high degree of statistical significance? Why does
independent morphological and molecular measurements determine the standard phylogenetic tree to better than 41 decimal places? Why do all the
separate lines of evidence converge on the same one historical phylogenetic tree if all species are not united in an objective genealogy?
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Macroevolution has answers to these questions, six-day "creationism" does not. "In the beginning God created...." does not answer these
scientific questions on "how" God created. All the evidence clearly points to our evolutionary ancestry and "common descent" as the best
scientific explanation of the facts of natural history, biology, paleontology, genetics, and the related sciences.
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