# Science and Guidance in Evolution

**URL:** <https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/science-and-guidance-in-evolution/2807>\
**Category:** Side Conversation\
**Tags:** Science, Design, Theology\
**Created:** [November 11, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/science-and-guidance-in-evolution/2807 "2018-11-11T00:12:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dan\_Eastwood](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.peacefulscience.org/dan_eastwood/32/2368_2.png) [@Dan\_Eastwood](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/u/Dan_Eastwood)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/science-and-guidance-in-evolution/2807/7 "2018-11-12T23:25:24Z")

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> [@Intelligent Design and Common Descent](https://discourse.peacefulscience.org/t/intelligent-design-and-common-descent/2536/355):
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> I don’t think you’ve answered the question. Do you believe that science can tell us that evolution is unguided?

Science is comparative; one hypothesis holds until another one comes along with a better explanation of the same data. If the new hypothesis works better (the WWWHW questions) then it displaces (or sometimes adds to) the existing hypothesis.

ID does not answer the questions the evolution can answer, there is no basis for comparison of how it might be better. Evolution stands as the best explanation, and it doesn’t make any claims about guidance.

Does that mean evolution is unguided? I see no reason to think it is. I don’t think we can even define “guidance” in a scientific sense.

Maybe if we include breeding and cultivation - I am excluding those here.

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