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From the article: "Texas school board chairman Don McLeroy ... believes that God created the earth less than 10,000 years ago. ...He also wants the texts to make the case that individual cells are far too complex to have evolved by chance mutation and natural selection, an argument popular with those who believe an intelligent designer created the universe."
In that one statement, Dr. McLeroy has demonstrated his ignorance about what the Theory of Evolution actually claims. The Theory makes no assumptions about how life arose. It simply states that once it got going, evolution occurred.
The best summing up of Darwinian Evolution I've ever seen is "descent with modification." There are many people trying to solve the riddle of how life began, but it isn't part of the Theory of Evolution. Evolution is about the origins of species, not the origins of life.
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