Evolution – Smevolution!

A Detailed Critique of the Evolution Debate

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by   Rick Harrison

Evo-Smevo       Part 1       Part 2        Part 3      

God & Science

Appendix 1      Appendix 2-6      Appendix 7-10

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The late and much beloved Sir John Templeton once said “scientific revelations may be a gold mine for revitalizing religion in the 21st century.” This has in fact been occurring, and in a broad spectrum across a span of scientific thought ranging from the nearly mystical approach of Trinh Xuan Thaun to the fully concrete cosmological resource and probability computations of William Dembski. Harrison, consistent with his training in analytical philosophy and consistent with the highly rational foundations of the Catholic Church, falls squarely on the Dembski end of things. While not eschewing the glorious reality of mystical and religious experience in personal encounters with God by any means, Harrison presents a carefully laid out rational argument for three changes in the current scientific culture: more logical rigor and consistency in science’s currently biased treatment of intelligent design (ID) and the relationship of God to science; (a great deal) more humility in science overall, especially when extracting supposed philosophical/theological implications from quantum theory and evolutionary science; and a return to pure scientific method ala Henry Gee. Restoring integrity to science in these ways will reveal how strong the scientific case for God has become.

Evo-Smevo reveals and indicts an unseemly scandal that has long been seething at science’s heart. That scandal is the prejudice against God. It is a bias openly manifest in much of mainstream science today. Neo-Darwinists are shown to have too often reflected this bias, if only unconsciously. The irrational attempt to perpetuate that bias has produced a logical shambles unworthy of science. Harrison brings the reader, at times quietly, and at times brusquely, to face the rising conviction in modern thought that the neo-Darwinian theory of accidental evolution, icon though it may be, is absolutely unsalvageable.

Evo-Smevo assaults the reader with an eye-opening logical and factual barrage, demolishing the materialist’s smug assumption of an accidental worldview. Harrison, though a non-PhD, produces an amazingly thorough analysis of the deepest issues and thrusts it squarely into the face of degreed academia: “Wake up and smell the coffee,” he says, “its over!”

You know it, and I know it: the accidental worldview is a myth. This book proves it. Harrison goes on to aggressively invite 900 million already socially active Catholics to join the cultural fight for intelligent design. There is a real risk of social consequences.

Behe, Dembski and Meyer have long since knocked out their opponent on the academic merits. How long neo-Darwinism might have continued to stagger in the ring, raising limp arms in false victory while tossing out a myriad of verbal obfuscations aimed at delaying the public’s transition to ID, is anyone’s guess. Evo-Smevo, however, brooks no dilly-dallying. Dawkins & Co. don’t merely receive a TKO here; they are thrown from the ring. From this book forward, neo-Darwinian evolution is a failed icon. Harrison returns God to the foundational position in scientific theory at the origin of life and the universe where Charles Darwin first placed him in The Origin of Species.

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* See the Templeton Foundation Web site memorial to Sir John Templeton at http://www.templeton.org/newsroom/press_releases/sir_john_templeton/.

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