CT Scan: Critical Thinking Scan
Are Soapberry Bugs Evidence for Evolution?
Season 7, Episode 2 • 12-Nov-2020
“Evolution is supported by an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence.” At least, that’s what a first-year biology textbook said, citing natural selection in soapberry bugs as the first example of such evidence. Let’s apply the 7 Checks of Critical Thinking to see whether this claim is true.
Correction to video: At the 4:19 mark, Patricia said “beetles” but meant “bugs,” as soapberry bugs belong to the true bug family, Hemiptera.
Up Next in S7: "Evidence for Evolution"
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Drug Resistant Bacteria – Part 1
Textbooks often call antibiotic-resistant bacteria prime “evidence for evolution.” Based on a real textbook example, let’s use Critical Thinking Checks #1-5 to look at what’s really going on in the observational science of bacteria resistance. There’s a lot more to the story than what many textbo...
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Drug Resistant Bacteria – Part 2
Textbooks often call antibiotic-resistant bacteria prime “evidence for evolution.” Based on a real textbook example, let’s use Critical Thinking Check #6 to look at what’s really going on in the observational science of bacteria resistance. There’s a lot more to the story than what many textbooks...
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Do Similarities Prove Evolution?
Do creatures with similar-looking features share the same evolutionary ancestor? Textbooks often say so, but let’s see how to think critically and biblically about such arguments.
