Evolution

After a lengthy discussion of this issue this week with Gunnar, I find this post on Powerline reinforcing my points. Those being primarily that taking the theory of evolution to the extreme of claiming it explains the beginnings of life is ridiculous. A claim I have made before. Here is a key passage:

I think that Darwin's theory of macroevolution is plainly wrong, on strictly scientific grounds. So to bar a student from progressing in his career because he refuses to sign on to what is, in my view, a rather obvious fraud, which cannot withstand the mildest scrutiny, is really an outrage. It is no different from the practice in Soviet Russia of promoting only biologists who believed (or pretended to believe) in the theories of Lamarck, who argued that acquired traits could be inherited. But Darwinism is the official religion of the biological (and more generally, the scientific) establishment, and as such is rigorously enforced.(Emphasis mine)