Ray Comfort's 'Origin Of Species'

In the paper, “Origin of Species”, author Ray Comfort presents opinions and non-supported assumptions to discredit the contributes of Charles Darwin to science literary. Charles Darwin contributions to science by his data, theories, and arguments for evolution by natural selection as exceptionally important in how scientist today classify and explanation evolution acting in nature. From variation in phenotype to the passing of favorable traits to succeeding generations, to how life itself become about set the foundation for scientist then and now to investigate natural phenomena all around us.

Furthermore, this is why we, as scientist, should evaluate the validity of Darwin’s conclusions/statements in regard to evolution is a more appropriate

Again, evolution is by random chance yet selection mediates that random chance with deterministically selecting for beneficial traits. Comfort entirely overlooks this fact by giving outlandish examples. Non-viable machinery is not acted by natural evolutionary forces because they do not reproduce, exhibit natural traits to where an evolutionary force can act upon. Therefore, his example of a car evolving to an airplane is not natural nor is it apart of what Darwin was explain with his theories. Again, the analogy with letters aligning themselves into proper words and sentences misses the fact that selection (continuing with this example) would select the words and sentences that are grammatically proper (beneficial traits). If the letters look like a word selection would favor it, and thus you can invoke the idea that this beneficial trait would d be more fit to produce offspring to carry those traits to the next generation. As comfort states, mutations are indeed random but his interpretation of directed mutation (get a mutation when you need it) is not true. Mutations happen by random chance, happens by chance then so be it. And, if selection favors that mutation, that mutation can become widespread in a population. The Cit+ experiment with Blount and colleges, demonstrates how mutations are random, take time, and if beneficial can result in more individuals in the population exhibiting that mutated trait due to