PHLA10H3 Lecture Notes - Theistic Evolution, Intelligent Design, Evolutionism
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Exercise 3: arguments from analogy have the following properties: object a has property p, Therefore, it is a weak inductive argument: theistic evolution says that god set mindless evolutionary processes in motion; these processes, once underway, are enough to explain the observed features of organisms. Creationism disagrees with both, it maintains not just that god set mindless evolutionary processes in motion, but also that he intervenes in these mindless processes, doing work that the mindless processes are incapable of doing. Therefore the difference is that with theistic evolutionism, after god set mindless evolutionary objects in motion, he just left. First, a novel mutation occurs, creating the variation to which natural selection operates. Then, natural selection goes to work changing the composition of the population. Natural selection only works in a population of organisms when there is inherited variation in fitness, that is the organisms must vary, they must be able to be past on from parents to offspring.
