"On the 150th anniversary of ''On the Origin of Species,'' an intelligent design advocate and an evolutionist weigh in on six natural wonders often cited as evidence against Darwin's theory."

What the Fuck? Since when did we start referring to creationists as 'intelligent design advocates' and supporters of the scientific theory of evolution as 'evolutionists'? Evolutionism isn't a fucking word, and it's no longer Darwin's theory.

This was a bloody weird article- one of the bones of contention was the anthropic principle (which has fuck all to do with biological evolution), but my favourite was the mention of whales. This is great. The idea is that whales could not have evolved from land dwelling mammals because creationists say so- "To fix all the mutations needed to convert a little land mammal into a fully functional whale [in ten million years]--mathematically that's totally not possible."

Lets pretend that they are right, just for a laugh.

This would mean that a group of mammals came into existence in complete isolation from all other mammals. It would mean that whales (and maybe dolphins and manatees) magicked into existence at some point in the past as air-breathing live-birthing mammals and that this idea is somehow less controversial (or silly) than the obvious evolutionary explanation.

some how they figure that once something is soo complex, such as god, that it just came into being, however simple things like eyes and flagella had to be created.
sounds like basic religious philosophy to me