Is Darwinism a ‘Potemkin’ Theory of Evolution?
The colossal mismatch between life’s observed sophistication and Darwin’s crude mechanism has scientists searching for something more plausible.
by Michael Behe
April 13, 2025, 10:20 PM
Headlines about evolution can give you whiplash. “Was Darwin Wrong?” teased a cover of National Geographic in 2004. But turn the page and you’re conked over the head: “NO. The evidence for Evolution is overwhelming”! Now jump to a recent book review in the journal Nature: “A new vision for how evolution works is long overdue…. [it] challenges a dearly held orthodoxy among evolutionary biologists.”
How could the evidence have been overwhelming but now orthodoxy is being challenged?
The short answer is that Darwin’s theory is a mishmash of multiple logically separate ideas. To avoid confusion, those independent notions have to be teased apart. A couple of strands of Darwinian thought are pretty well supported. Others are close to hopeless. Depending on whether a particular magazine article wants to lecture the rubes that science is in charge, or whip up excitement that something new might be in the air, it emphasizes one or the other.
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Read more here: The American Spectator
