Prowling around at The Conversation, I came across a 2016 article by Paula Kover on common misunderstandings about evolution. It’s important for those of us who teach evolution to know these, for we need to dispel them implicitly—or, better, explicitly—when we teach evolutionary biology. I keep a list on my computer, and you can see a comprehensive summary of such misconceptions at the UC Berkeley site Understanding Evolution.
Click on the screenshot to read Kover’s short article:
Kover’s list is straightforward, though not original (and, indeed, how could it be since these are well known?), and the first four are these are generally true, but #2 has a hitch and #5 is just wrong. In the narrative below, I’ve put Kovar’s points in bold but I’ve made a brief comment on all the points in non-bolded text.
1.) It’s just a theory. That’s used to discredit evolution since…
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