biogeography,
biologists,
biology,
circular reasoning,
Darwin's Doubt,
Darwinism,
David Gelernter,
Discovery Institute,
DNA,
embryology,
Evolution,
evolutionists,
free speech,
high school,
homology,
Jerry Coyne,
Long Story Short,
Miller and Levine’s Biology,
Pearson Education,
Stephen Meyer,
strengths and weaknesses,
textbook,
vestigial organs,
video,
Why Evolution Is True,
Yale University
The biology textbook my daughter uses in high school, Miller and Levine’s Biology, is in wide use. It’s the one from Pearson with the parrot on the cover. On page 468, it employs a circular argument beloved by evolutionists: the argument from homology. The same argument features in many different textbooks. And it is regularly cited by biologists in scolding the public about their Darwin doubts. “Long Story Short” Here is a really brief, cute, and effective new video from Discovery Institute that addresses and deftly punctures this argument. Just eight minutes long! It’s part of a freshly launched occasional series, “Long Story Short,” that compresses key points in the debate between Darwinism and intelligent design into a very welcome format: concise, accessible, and funny. As the narrator explains, “One of…