Is believing in creation rational and evidence based?
• Richard J Roberts, Head, Vaccine Preventable Disease Programme National Public Health Service, Abton House, Wedal Road, Cardiff, CF14 3QX, UK Despite what Dawkins, Ravichandran, and others may say, it is perfectly rational to argue, from scientific data, for either creation or evolution as an explanation of the origin of life. Douglas Futuyma, a distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolution, wrote: “Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations for the origin of living things. Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not. If they did not, they must have developed from preexisting species by some process of modification. If they did appear in a fully developed state, they must indeed have been created by some omnipotent intelligence” (1). The relevance of the fossil record to this discussion has been questioned. However, its importance is fundamental because a) it is the only observable evidence that life existed in the past, and
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