I came across a new website (new to me at least) named Faith & Evolution which looks quite terrific. Rather than clobber with polemics, it offers reasoned articles, videos, and resources (plus calm and detailed responses to antagonists) making it something of a "first stop" for anyone investigating and entering the current discussion on evolution and Intelligent Design. The site was developed by the Center for Science and Culture at the Discovery Institute.
A lead article begins:
Francis Collins [author of The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief (2006)] feels that intelligent design poses a serious problem to Christian belief because it rejects Darwinian evolution, which he feels is supported by overwhelming evidence.
But the only evidence Collins cites for Darwin’s mechanism of variation
and selection is microevolution—minor changes within existing species.
And the principal evidence he cites for Darwin’s claim of common
ancestry is DNA sequences that he says have no function—though genome
researchers are discovering that many of them do have functions.
Collins’s defense of Darwinian theory turns out to be largely an argument from ignorance that must retreat as we learn more about the genome—in effect, a Darwin of the gaps . [more...]
** Blogger Wintery Knight put up a post today titled, "Does the new Ida fossil prove evolution? and wrote,
Whenever you have questions about evolution and culture, there is only one blog that you really need to read, and that’s Denyse O’Leary’s Post-Darwinist. She has written no less than THREE stories on the Ida fossil, so let’s take a look at see what she’s found. [Read on . . .]