Book review of Nature\'s I.Q. (Evolution)

by David Turell , Thursday, September 24, 2009, 02:48 (5337 days ago) @ George Jelliss

Perfectly adequate explanations of all these cases are to be found in the evolutionary literature. Indeed, Darwin's theory, together with its modern improvements, is the only adequate explanation of these phenomena. 
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> I understand why DT is scouring the literature for examples of strange adaptations, to try to support his thesis of design, but the same literature also offers explanations of these adaptations. They cannot be dismissed as he often does as "just so stories".-You missed my point entirely. Yes we know how many of these cooperative endevours work now. We do not know how they got that way. We know that birds migrate temendous distances by various guidances. We really don't know about penis and vagina, or baby head and mother's pelvic opening. Your guess or conjecture about the baby and mother is a good one, but we can only suppose it works that way. A simple statement 'evolution is the only explanation' begs the real question, and as dhw points out, it sounds like faith in Darwin's religion.-The following link is to Uncommon Descent, where Gould is quoted in regard to the green turtle's migration across the Atlantic from Brazil to Ascension Island. It is taken from the Panda's Thumb. He is willing to make a guess, like George did, but true science is not guesswork, or just-so stories.There are other problematic similar practices by animals discussed also. How did these things evolve. That they evolved I don't doubt. I just raise the challenge to find the true process: either natural evolution or designed evolution.- http://www.uncommondescent.com/