Creationists pit genetics and evolution against one another

Evolution and genetics are “two very closely interwoven disciplines,” as the Genetics Society of America observes, so it is difficult to disentangle the two from each other or from the fabric of biology as a whole.

But, relying on a general trust in genetics and a general ignorance of, skepticism about, or hostility toward evolution, creationists regularly attempt to misrepresent genetics – whether the population genetics of the middle twentieth century, the molecular genetics of the late twentieth century, or the genomics of the early twenty-first century – as posing a problem for evolution.

Read the full, original story here: Bad Science: Genetics as misread by creationism

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