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Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute Jonathan Wells and Harvard Professor of Biology Stephen Palumbi debated the merits of evolutionary theory last night at the Kennedy School of Government’s ARCO Forum...
Although Wells and Palumbi disagreed about evolutionary theory, both said presenting multiple viewpoints on evolution is an important part of education...
Palumbi—who followed Wells’ speech—agreed with Wells’ observation that fossil history goes back billions of years. Palumbi offered two explanations. The first was that “the complicated came from the simple”—natural selection. The second was the empirically disproved notion of spontaneous generation...
...Palumbi said he valued the evolutionary process more for its ramifications than for the theory’s internal worth. One example: the HIV virus, which has a high mutation rate that allows it to evolve within days or weeks...
...beautiful here," Palumbi said. "But it's beautiful in Boston...