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As biologists use the term, macroevolution means evolution at or above the species level. Speciation has been observed and documented.Published as Isaak 2007, pp. 87–88 Isaak, Mark (2007). The Counter-Creationism Handbook. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24926-4. LCCN 2006047492. OCLC 69241583.
Like many foes of Darwinism, past and present, the American populist and creationist William Jennings Bryan thought a straight line ran from Darwin's theory ('a dogma of darkness and death') to beliefs that it is right for the strong to crowd out the weak.
9. Evolution lowers man from the 'image of God' to the level of an animal. Why then should he not behave as one, in his own life and towards others?
I have to apologize once more for the wild flights of my incorrigible artist. I told him most clearly and positively to draw me a life-like portrait of that profound philosopher, Mr. Darwin...— Original cartoon here. From the collection of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help){{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)As biologists use the term, macroevolution means evolution at or above the species level. Speciation has been observed and documented.Published as Isaak 2007, pp. 87–88 Isaak, Mark (2007). The Counter-Creationism Handbook. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24926-4. LCCN 2006047492. OCLC 69241583.
2 c (1): a process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better state : GROWTH
(2): a process of gradual and relatively peaceful social, political, and economic advance
In the American vernacular, 'theory' often means 'imperfect fact'--part of a hierarchy of confidence running downhill from fact to theory to hypothesis to guess. Thus the power of the creationist argument: evolution is 'only' a theory and intense debate now rages about many aspects of the theory. If evolution is worse than a fact, and scientists can't even make up their minds about the theory, then what confidence can we have in it? [...] Well evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty.— Moran quoting Stephen J. Gould (Discover, May 1981)
As biologists use the term, macroevolution means evolution at or above the species level. Speciation has been observed and documented.Published as Isaak 2007, pp. 87–88 Isaak, Mark (2007). The Counter-Creationism Handbook. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24926-4. LCCN 2006047492. OCLC 69241583.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)As biologists use the term, macroevolution means evolution at or above the species level. Speciation has been observed and documented.Published as Isaak 2007, pp. 87–88 Isaak, Mark (2007). The Counter-Creationism Handbook. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-24926-4. LCCN 2006047492. OCLC 69241583.