Some Recent Debates About Evolution
The details of
evolutionary theory are hotly debated. But it has developed from Darwin’s
original proposal into a theory of enormous explanatory power - it fits to a
very marked degree Barbour’s criteria for a successful scientific theory:
agreement with data, coherence, scope and fertility. It is for this reason that we do not consider here schemes which seek an
outline some alternative science in order to defend a literalist reading of
Scripture.
However, there are vigorous debates within Darwinism - see from
Darwinism to neo-Darwinism, punctuated
equilibrium and radical contingency, and self-organisation and the development
of complexity.
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Source: God, Humanity and the Cosmos (T&T Clark, 1999)
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