I’ve begun listening to a podcast called Evolution 101. Dr. Zach Moore is the host. It is an attempt to provide clear, straight forward answers to questions about evolution. Technical answers that are in laymens terms. It is a ’science outreach’ podcast.

Each episode is around ten minutes long, which is good because that’s about the time I spend commuting to work these days. There are twenty something episodes already out, so I’m pretty far behind. But I don’t figure it will take long for me to catch up. This morning I listened to episode 3, “Darwin Day”. There are transcripts available, which is helpful for me to provide some quotes as I interact with the podcasts. But not always the most accurate. I am assuming that they are his script, and he sometimes deviates from them at points.

At one point in this episode, Dr. Zach discusses Darwin and how he arrived at his theory. He praises Darwin for being ‘his own worst critic’. Darwin knew the fossil evidence of his day didn’t support his theory. Dr. Zach then makes this statement, “Fortunately, the discovery of countless fossils since his death and the burgeoning field of paleontology have provided and incredible amount of evidence in support of his theory.” But wait! There’s a comment that is left out of the transcript that was made in the podcast. A comment that, from all appearances, is meant to clarify the previous one. He says, “There’s nothing that has been found that contradicts Darwin’s basic theory”.

But is that the same thing? Is a lack of contradicting evidence the same thing as the presence of supporting evidence? No, it isn’t.

But what’s really interesting is that, as you’ll recall from my post the other day, evolution isn’t falsifiable! Evolutionists will never find contradicting evidence, because their theory (when presupposed as fact) can be used to explain any and all observations.