I’m perfectly happy to let Derb receive most of the grief over the evolution stuff, but it simply seems to me that some people make a leap of faith when they think they are making a leap of logic. Even if one could prove catastrophic failures in evolutionary theory that would not go very far at all in proving another theory in this case intelligent design and/or creationism. Since science really isn’t my bag, let me use a more comfortable example: proving that Marxism is wrong doesn’t prove that Capitalism (or Monarchism) is right. You have to build an affirmative, testable, case for something you say is true. You can’t point at the failure of A to say that B is therefore obviously true. You must work to make the case for B even more assiduously than you did to disprove A.

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Jonah Goldberg is a National Review contributing editor.
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