Evolution: Fact

Evolution as Fact and Theory

The Fact of Evolution: Implications for Science Education

Creationists who object to evolution in the science curriculum of public schools often cite Jonathan Well’s book Icons of Evolution in their support (Wells 2000). In the third chapter of his book Wells claims that neither paleontological nor molecular evidence supports the thesis that the history of life is an evolutionary process of descent from preexisting ancestors. We argue that Wells inapp...

DOGMA-MESS: A Tool for Fact-Oriented Collaborative Ontology Evolution

Ontologies being shared formal specifications of a domain, are an important lever for developing meaningful internet systems. However, the problem is not in what ontologies are, but how they become operationally relevant and sustainable over longer periods of time. Fact-oriented and layered approaches such as DOGMA have been successful in facilitating domain experts in representing and understa...

Is Evolution a Fact? — a Rebuttal to an Evolutionist’s Claims —

Evolution: Fact Jerry A.CoyneWhy Evolution Is True2009Oxford University PressOxfordISBN 978-0199230846

tower and try to explain what I do to the (surely fairly rational?) man in the street. Similarly, reading the manifestos of those seeking election to offices of the European and American Evolution Societies, there is universal agreement that evolutionary biologists need to do more to explain their work to the public. The fact is, however, that we're still not very good at delivering on these go...