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== Implausibility of [[Materialism|Materialist]] Explanations ==
 
== Implausibility of [[Materialism|Materialist]] Explanations ==
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Dr. Norman Geisler wrote concerning young earth creationist and old earth creationist the following: "Both groups are also agreed in their opposition to [[naturalism]], which they see as the philosophical presupposition of evolution." <ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC0305W3.htm</ref> 
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Dr. Norman Geisler wrote concerning young earth creationist and old earth creationist the following: "Both groups are also agreed in their opposition to [[naturalism]], which they see as the philosophical presupposition of evolution." <ref>http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC0305W3.htm</ref>  Accordingly, creationist scientists often assert that evolutionary scientists regularly employ extremely implausible explanations to support their position and have done this since at least the time of Charles Darwin.  Opponents of the macroevolutionary position sometimes refer to these extremely implausible explanations as "just so stories".<ref>http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/two-just-so-stories/</ref> A "just so story" is also a term used in scholarly works in the fields of anthropology, biological sciences, and social sciences for an explanation which is unverifiable and unfalsifiable. <ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+story%22+anthropology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+anthropology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+story%22+biology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+biology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+and+%22social+sciences%22&btnG=Search</ref>   In many instances the terminology of "just so story" is used in scholarly works when discussing material which attempts to defend the evolutionary position. <ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+story%22+Dawkins&btnG=Search</ref>
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A "just so story" is a term used in scholarly works in the fields of anthropology, biological sciences, and social sciences for an explanation which is unverifiable and unfalsifiable. <ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+story%22+anthropology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+anthropology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+story%22+biology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+biology&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+and+%22social+sciences%22&btnG=Search</ref>
<ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+Dawkins&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just-so+story%22+Gould&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+gould&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+story%22+Neodarwinism&btnG=Search</ref><ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=%22Just+so+stories%22+Neodarwinism&btnG=Search</ref>  
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Opponents of the macroevolutionary position assert that evolutionary scientists employ extremely implausible "just so stories" to support their position and have done this since at least the time of Charles Darwin. <ref>http://darwinstories.blogspot.com/</ref>
 
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<ref>http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/two-just-so-stories/</ref>
Also, in regards to "just so explanations" Darwin in his Origin of the Species wrote a chapter entitled "Difficulties on Theory" in which he wrote the following:
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Darwin in his Origin of the Species wrote a chapter entitled "Difficulties on Theory" in which he wrote the following:
    
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Creationist often quote the prominent evolutionist and geneticist Professor [[Richard Lewontin]] admitted the following:  
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Creationist often quote the prominent evolutionist and geneticist Professor [[Richard Lewontin]] who admitted the following:  
    
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