Does the preponderance of evidence point to the claimants conclusion or to a different one?
Shermer states, “The theory of evolution, for example, is proved through a convergence of evidence from a number of independent lines of inquiry. No one fossil, no one piece of biological or paleontological evidence has “evolution” written on it; instead tens of thousands of evidentiary bits add up to a story of the evolution of life. Creationists conveniently ignore this confluence, focusing instead on trivial anomalies or currently unexplained phenomena in the history of life.” Supporters of vivisection do the same. They point out times when an animal reacted the same way a human reacted to a drug or disease. But they ignore the vast majority of times when the animal model failed and humans were harmed as a result. Further, in evaluating animal models, the vested interest groups ignore the predictions made by evolutionary biology that subtle and important differences will exist between species and instead focus solely on the gross similarities between species that were historically u
