SHE'LL SAY IT FOR YOU:

Q & A: Biologist Richard Dawkins on the evolution debate (Lori Kozlowski, November 4, 2009, LA Times)

Throughout the book, you seem to have a deep respect, almost a love, as if you are in awe of the process. Is evolution your religion?

Well, I don't want to say that. [...]

In the preface, you explain that evidence for evolution grows by the day and has never been stronger. What recent evidence do you believe has been the strongest?

I think probably evidence from molecular genetics which is pretty recent. I describe the very excellent work of Richard Lenski at Michigan State on bacterial evolution.

[Lenski's long-term experiment, underway since 1988, has tracked the genetic changes that have evolved in 12 populations of originally identical E. coli bacteria.]

At the end of which [intelligent-design] process they all remain E. coli bacteria, effectively arguing against Darwinism.

Posted by Orrin Judd at November 4, 2009 6:50 AM