[Wonder Warthog]

"It is my understanding the great weakness of evolutionary theory is that the mechanism for evolution has never been found. Random genetic mutations didn't pan out. I don't doubt there have been changes in species. But scientists have not been able to explain how or why."

The BASIC mechanism of evolution is well known---mutation PLUS selection. Neither one by itself does the job. Together they are all that is required. The ONLY valid SCIENTIFIC criticism of evolution is that sometimes evolution happens more quickly than "normal" mutation rates (molecular clocks) alone can account for ("punctuated equilibrium").

The "criticisms" in the posted article are mostly strawmen, or valid only in the minds of the "creation science" types.

[Williams]

I must disagree. Random mutations do not explain the steady progress of evolutionary changes. Changes occur, and these can be called mutations, but the mechanism by which a whole species goes from living on land to living in the sea is not explained by random mutation. Nor by natural selection dealing with the random mutations that do occur. Further, similar species have evolved in lands isolated from one another, such as Australia. There appears to be some inate quality that causes life to evolve and make use of the environment in various ways.

[Elsie]

The BASIC mechanism of  [how] evolution  [ought to work] is well known---mutation PLUS selection. Neither one by itself does the job. Together they are all that is required.

 

 

(It's just too bad that MAN cannot REPLICATE any of these things happening.)