It is far easier to convince a thinking layperson of the fact of the event than it is to sell them any given mechanism. Once the scientist and layperson are on the same page with respect to the event, the former has a solid platform from which logical arguments may be launched. Darwinism then becomes one of many possible scientific models for evolution mechanisms and can be defended as the most valid, given information available in his day. Current models can be presented as improvements of Darwinian Theory based on more current information, a process consistent with other sciences.
As long as we maintain a reasoned scientific attitude toward the subject of organic evolution and stress that religious explanations, true or not, are simply outside the realm of science and, consequently can play no part in scientific models, we remain true to our profession. To launch a frontal attack on ...
