Abstract
John Wiester's writing in his Communication, "The Real Meaning of Evolution" (Perspectives 45:3, p. 182-186) sounds rather similar to that of the young earth creationists I assume he'd criticize. He feels that teaching "evolution" is equivalent, in the public mind, to teaching that humans came about through "purposeless, unguided processes," and he finds this offensive. While I agree that too many non-theistic science popularizers do incorrectly equate "random" with "unguided," I must disagree with Wiester's apparent objection to the appeal to chance and random processes in the teaching of evolutionary theory.