STEM Education Institute Tuesday Seminar
“Geology, Evolution and (Incompetent) Design”
Don Wise
Professor Emeritus, Geosciences, University of Massachusetts
Professor Wise's description of talk:
"This talk first takes the creationists/ anti-evolutionists / intelligent designers at their word and tests their arguments and claims against the geologic record’s evidence of superposition of innumerable changing environments associated with progressively more complex life forms with time. It concludes that despite such overwhelming evidence this approach will probably be a losing argument with the bulk of the American public. Instead it suggests applying arguments of intelligent design to obvious defects in human anatomy with the humorous tone of a political campaign as a possibly more effective strategy."