Objections to evolution | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-10

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00:02:09 1 History
00:11:29 2 Defining evolution
00:14:45 3 Scientific acceptance
00:14:55 3.1 Status as a theory
00:18:15 3.2 Degree of acceptance
00:22:14 4 Scientific status
00:22:59 4.1 Religious nature
00:27:19 4.2 Unfalsifiability
00:32:06 4.3 Tautological nature
00:33:34 5 Evidence
00:33:55 5.1 Lack of observation
00:39:56 5.2 Unreliable evidence
00:42:29 5.3 Unreliable chronology
00:44:26 6 Plausibility
00:45:03 6.1 Improbability
00:50:44 6.2 Unexplained aspects of the natural world
00:52:29 7 Impossibility
00:52:58 7.1 Creation of complex structures
00:58:51 7.1.1 Cambrian explosion complexity argument
01:01:31 7.2 Creation of information
01:03:20 7.3 Violation of the second law of thermodynamics
01:05:54 8 Moral implications
01:06:36 8.1 Humans as animals
01:07:31 8.2 Social effects
01:14:04 8.3 Atheism
01:18:11 9 See also



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Objections to evolution have been raised since evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, his theory of evolution (the idea that species arose through descent with modification from a single common ancestor in a process driven by natural selection) initially met opposition from scientists with different theories, but eventually came to receive overwhelming acceptance in the scientific community. The observation of evolutionary processes occurring (as well as the modern evolutionary synthesis explaining that evidence) has been uncontroversial among mainstream biologists since the 1940s.
Since then, most criticisms and denials of evolution have come from religious groups, rather than from the scientific community. Although many religious groups have found reconciliation of their beliefs with evolution, such as through theistic evolution, other religious groups continue to reject evolutionary explanations in favor of creationism, the belief that the universe and life were created by supernatural forces. The U.S.-centered creation–evolution controversy has become a focal point of perceived conflict between religion and science.
Several branches of creationism, including creation science, neo-creationism, and intelligent design, argue that the idea of life being directly designed by a god or intelligence is at least as scientific as evolutionary theory, and should therefore be taught in public education. Such arguments against evolution have become widespread and include objections to evolution's evidence, methodology, plausibility, morality, and scientific acceptance. The scientific community does not recognize such objections as valid, pointing to detractors' misinterpretations of such things as the scientific method, evidence, and basic physical laws.