The Fossil Fallacy

Wednesday, March 30th, 2005

Scientific American‘s The Fossil Fallacy notes that creationists’ demand for fossils that represent “missing links” reveals a deep misunderstanding of science:

Nineteenth-century English social scientist Herbert Spencer made this prescient observation: “Those who cavalierly reject the Theory of Evolution, as not adequately supported by facts, seem quite to forget that their own theory is supported by no facts at all.”

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