What's the Issue with Natural Selection? | The Creation Podcast: Episode 18

TUESDAY, MARCH 08, 2022

How does natural selection replace God as the creative agent? What issues can be found with the concept of natural selection? And can accepting Darwinian evolution be harmful to one's faith? Host Lauren Pennington and ICR President and research scientist Dr. Randy Guliuzza talk about some of the scientific and spiritual problems with the concept of natural selection in Episode 18 of The Creation Podcast.

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