DARVINIZAM - JOŠ UVIJEK IZAZOV ZA ZNANOST I ŠKOLSTVO
DARWINISM - STILL A CHALLENGE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION

Summary/Abstract: When the heated debate, conducted for decades about the theory of evolution, seemed to be abating giving way to an elegant compromising attitude that it was possible to reconcile the two seemingly irreconcilable views of how life came to be and developed on the Earth, a new theory appeared called "intelligent design", which tries to scientifically challenge Darwinist propositions, and to prave that the cause of the overall reality is an intelligent factor rather than a headless coincidence. This paper presents the main objectiom that the advocates of the new view raise against the selection theory. These objectiom point to the short coming of transient species and to the wrong interpretation of certain Jossi/ remains as well as to exaggerated attachment of importance to the mutations itl the evolutionary process, to the inappropriate assertions about the homology of organs among different species, and to the consequences caused by social Darwinism and evolutionary ethics. The paper continues to set forth the key arguments for the intelligent design, and the basic objections raised against it.

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