Firing the Foxy Evolution Story
Regular readers should have noticed that creationists not only encourage people to use critical thinking, but to ask questions as well. Not just superficial questions, either. Add to that a bit of skill at spotting logical fallacies , and people are much less easily deceived by Darwinian just-so stories. Credit: US National Park Service / Jessica Weinberg McClosky (Usage does not imply endorsement of site contents) A few years back, the hands at the Darwin Ranch (go past Stinking Lake toward Deception Pass) got all het up about "Hobbits" ( H. florensis ) diminutive humans that apparently suffered from microcephaly. In a recent bit of malarkey, it has been suggested that studying the island fox is a key to human evolution. Was the author's reasoning influenced by peyote buttons? Asking for a friend. They eat those things like taco chips at the Darwin Ranch, you know. There is one redeeming feature in this otherwise non-rigorous Darwin story: a lesson about avoiding assu