Somar outlines five general tenets of evolutionary theory that have been discovered in the year since darwin published his revolutionary book. Evolutionary change is not haphazard and random, It follows a selective process co discovered by darwin and the naturalist alfred russell wallace. Given enough time, small changes within a species can accumulate into large changes that create new species. All this change is slow, steady and stately.
In this AMA Dr. Michael Shermer answers your questions about evolution and creationism, intelligent design theory, the hard problem of consciousness, the origins of morality, how science deals with anomalies, to what extent humans are naturally rational or irrational / skeptical or gullible, and why there is something rather than nothing.