Title: Objections to evolution - Wikipedia
Headings: Objections to evolution
Objections to evolution
Contents
History
Defining evolution
Scientific acceptance
Status as a theory
Degree of acceptance
Scientific status
Religious nature
Unfalsifiability
Tautological nature
Evidence
Lack of observation
Unreliable evidence
Unreliable chronology
Plausibility
Improbability
Unexplained aspects of the natural world
Impossibility
Creation of complex structures
Cambrian explosion complexity argument
Creation of information
Violation of the second law of thermodynamics
Moral implications
Humans as animals
Social effects
Atheism
See also
Notes
References
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

Content: The U.S. -centered creation–evolution controversy has become a focal point of perceived conflict between religion and science . Several branches of creationism, including creation science, neo-creationism, and intelligent design, argue that the idea of life being directly designed by a god or intelligence is at least as scientific as evolutionary theory, and should therefore be taught in public education. Such arguments against evolution have become widespread and include objections to evolution's evidence, methodology, plausibility, morality, and scientific acceptance. The scientific community does not recognize such objections as valid, pointing to detractors' misinterpretations of such things as the scientific method, evidence, and basic physical laws . Contents
1 History
2 Defining evolution
3 Scientific acceptance
3.1 Status as a theory
3.2 Degree of acceptance
4 Scientific status
4.1 Religious nature
4.2 Unfalsifiability
4.3 Tautological nature
5 Evidence
5.1 Lack of observation
5.2 Unreliable evidence
5.3 Unreliable chronology
6 Plausibility
6.1 Improbability
6.2 Unexplained aspects of the natural world
7 Impossibility
7.1 Creation of complex structures
7.1.1 Cambrian explosion complexity argument
7.2 Creation of information
7.3 Violation of the second law of thermodynamics
8 Moral implications
8.1 Humans as animals
8.2 Social effects
8.3 Atheism
9 See also
10 Notes
11 References
12 Bibliography
13 Further reading
14 External links
History
Further information: History of evolutionary thought, History of creationism, and Creation–evolution controversy
Charles Darwin 's theory of evolution gained widespread acceptance as a description of the origin of species, but there was continued resistance to his views on the significance of natural selection as the mechanism of evolution. Evolutionary ideas came to prominence in the early 19th century with the theory (developed between 1800 and 1822) of the transmutation of species put forward by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). At first the scientific community - and notably Georges Cuvier (1769 - 1832) - opposed the idea of evolution. The idea that laws control nature and society gained vast popular audiences with George Combe 's The Constitution of Man of 1828 and with the anonymous Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation of 1844. When Charles Darwin published his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, he convinced most of the scientific community that new species arise through descent through modification in a branching pattern of divergence from common ancestors, but while most scientists accepted natural selection as a valid and empirically testable hypothesis, Darwin's view of it as the primary mechanism of evolution was rejected by some.