No one really argues about the validity of natural selection. Only the most hardened of young Earth creationists contest that organisms with more adaptive traits will preferentially survive and reproduce. The Intelligent Design crowd tends to wave this off as a trivial truth. Of course, they say, better traits are selected for. They instead claim [...]

(Salim Virji)
Who doesn’t love the platypus? This is a creature bizarre enough to make marsupials feel better about themselves. The platypus, lactates (mammal!) and lays eggs (reptile!), grows fur (mammal!) and venom (reptile!).
This might be the single most interesting creature, from an evolutionary point of view, on the planet. About 315 million years ago, Amniotes–a [...]

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(cartoon via xkcd)
Ideas are tested by experiment. That’s all there is to science. This is the only bar an idea must be taller than to take the ride of science as a legitimate hypothesis.
An untestable, unknowable, incomprehensible supernatural force is required for the existence of living things–the central idea [...]