Why evolution is true

Author: Jerry A. Coyne

Why evolution is more than just a theory: it is a fact., , In all the current highly publicized debates about creationism and its descendant “intelligent design,” there is an element of the controversy that is rarely mentioned—the “evidence,” the empirical truth of evolution by natural selection. Even Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould, while extolling the beauty of evolut….Read More

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