Posted: Aug 24, 2017 7:51 pm
by Wortfish
Shrunk wrote:Besides which, that's not what I'm talking about. When creationists publish their "research" (
), do they typically have it reviewed by established experts in the relevant fields? For instance, when Stephen Meyer claimed in "Darwin's Doubt" that the Cambrian Explosion required
the sudden evolution of thousands of new protein-coding genes, who was the developmental biologist he ran that by to make sure he was correct regarding current understanding of the genetic basis of alteration in body plans?
He presumably read the literature. The fact is, though, that creationist objections do induce evolutionary biologists to try and solve the big outstanding problems with their theory.