Anyway, i think that is a sufficient starting point to help you understand how Wells began his dissent from Darwinian evolution.
Right - by becoming a fundamentalist Christian. Like the whole of the creationism movement, not a single one of them was convinced of it by the scientific evidence, but by a pre-existing need to assume the truth of the Bible and then cherry-pick the evidence to support it.
Hey, prove me wrong. Show me an atheist who was convinced of intelligent design by the evidence, and then, once convinced of ID, was convinced by further evidence that the IDer was none other than the God of the Bible.
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