Weiss On Darwin’s Methods
In today’s Washington Post, Senior Fellow Rick Weiss looks to Charles Darwin’s own life experience to cool tensions between science and religion:
Darwin’s humility in the face of insufficient evidence — his willingness to say “I don’t know” — is as important a lesson as any to be found in biology texts today. This is not about “teaching the controversy” — Darwin had a slam-dunk in his explanation of the evolution of species, including humans, and every modern test of evolutionary theory has only strengthened his conclusions. But he also knew there is plenty of room for God at the top, upstream of the business of biology.
Read the full editorial: “One Thing Darwin Didn’t Know.”
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