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Evidence for Macroevolution / Common descent

• 29+ Evidences for Macroevolution: The Scientific Case for Common Descent — TalkOrigins Archive

  • This article directly addresses the scientific evidence in favor of common descent and macroevolution. This article is specifically intended for those who are scientifically minded but, for one reason or another, have come to believe that macroevolutionary theory explains little, makes few or no testable predictions, is unfalsifiable, or has not been scientifically demonstrated. [...] In general, separate "microevolutionary" theories are left unaddressed.

Flat Earth

• The Plane Truth, by Bob Schadewald (© 2015)

  • A history of the flat-earth movement by an acknowledged authority on the subject.

Creationism

• On Losing a Debate to a Creation Scientist - Florida Philosophical Review
• The Creation/Evolution Continuum | National Center for Science Education

  • The creation/evolution continuum reflects the degree to which the Bible is interpreted as literally true, with the greatest degree of literalism at the top.

Intelligent Design

• Sober, Elliot (2007). What is wrong with intelligent design?, The Quarterly Review of Biology, 82-1

  • "When scientific theories compete with each other, the usual pattern is that independently attested auxiliary propositions allow the theories to make predictions that disagree with each other. No such auxiliary propositions allow mini-ID to do this." Sober concludes, "It is easy enough to construct a version of ID that accommodates a set of observations already known, but it also is easy to construct a version of ID that conflicts with what we have already observed. Neither undertaking results in substantive science, nor is there any point in constructing a version of ID that is so minimalistic that it fails to say much of anything about what we observe. In all its forms, ID fails to constitute a serious alternative to evolutionary theory."

    • Sober explains what is wrong with "intelligent design" | National Center for Science Education

Methodological Naturalism

• Maarten Boudry, Stefaan Blancke & Johan Braeckman, How not to attack intelligent design creationism: Philosophical misconceptions about methodological naturalism - PhilPapers

  • According to one popular conception, MN is a self-imposed or intrinsic limitation of science, which means that science is simply not equipped to deal with claims of the supernatural (Intrinsic MN or IMN). Alternatively, we will defend MN as a provisory and empirically grounded attitude of scientists, which is justified in virtue of the consistent success of naturalistic explanations and the lack of success of supernatural explanations in the history of science. (Provisory MN or PMN).

• Patrick McDonald and Nivaldo Tro, “In Defense of Methodological Naturalism”, Christian Scholar’s Review, 38:2 , 201-229

  • Patrick McDonald and Nivaldo J. Tro [...] present several reasons for accepting methodological naturalism, including its proven historical success, and they argue also that such a practice need not imply [...] the idea that only the natural exists.

• Kathryn Applegate. A Defense of Methodological Naturalism. Accessed August 12, 2026, from https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2013/PSCF3-13Applegate.pdf

  • Whatever process one studies, from the birth of stars to intracellular dynamics, it does not explain away God’s activity in the world.