I may have written about this this before, but reader Ivar just called it to my attention, so it’s worth going over again.
The “Understanding Evolution” website produced by the University of California at Berkeley is an excellent resource, and is especially good for its list of “misconceptions about evolution” page.
There are eight categories of misconceptions with answers to all of them at the links. Here, for instance, is one category for general misconceptions about evolution and science.
Misconceptions about evolution and the nature of science
- Evolution is not science because it is not observable or testable.
- Evolution is ‘just’ a theory.
- Evolutionary theory is invalid because it is incomplete and cannot give a total explanation for the biodiversity we see around us.
- Gaps in the fossil record disprove evolution.
Not bad, eh?
However, as organizations often do when trying to convince people that evolution is true, they…
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