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Peer reviewedCarrier, Richard – Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2000
Statistics are offered to "prove" odds against the origin of life. Presents a summary analysis of all known examples to be used to check these claims whenever they are brought up in conversations, debates, books, or articles. Addresses scientific work misused by anti-evolutionists and the pseudoscientific assertions of the…
Descriptors: Creationism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution, Probability
Peer reviewedRobson, Thomas – Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2000
Anti-evolutionists are fond of presenting their audiences with numbers of dizzying magnitude that they use to represent incredibly low probabilities for such events as the chance formation of a protein molecule or the origin of life by invoking beloved mathematical law by Borel. Presents an illustration to reveal what Borel really meant. (ASK)
Descriptors: Creationism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution, Mathematical Concepts
Peer reviewedBailey, David H. – Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 2000
Some of the most impressive-sounding criticisms of the conventional theory of biological evolution involve probability. Presents a few examples of how probability should and should not be used in discussing evolution. (ASK)
Descriptors: Creationism, Elementary Secondary Education, Evolution, Mathematical Concepts
