Debate with a Creationist: Choose one Creationist argument from the list below. Write a short refutation
of your chosen argument, using citations from the textbook and the primary literature (available through
Google Scholar or Web of Science).
a. Nobody has ever seen a new species evolve.
b. Evolution is unscientific because it is not testable or falsifiable. It makes claims about
c. events that were not observed and can never be re-created.
d. If humans descended from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?
e. Evolution cannot explain how life first appeared on Earth.
f. Mutations are essential to evolution theory, but mutations can only eliminate traits. They cannot
produce new features
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