The short answer is yes.
The purpose of this post is not to revive the creationist/evolutionist debate. To be honest, I don’t really care too much about most of the details of these arguments. I merely want to point out a possible incongruity in some of the literature from the evolutionist side of things.
In philosophy of science, it is well-established that science is not as value free as many people would like to assume. Helen Longino and many others have given compelling evidence that proves this point. However, for some reason, much of the discussion [especially among lay-people] presents evolution as an objective and value free theory. I think the reason for this could be polemical: the creationists clearly have certain values driving their beliefs, so 0evolutionists want to be as far away from that as possible. I just think it would be more honest, if they would admit that evolution cannot possible be value-free, since evidence shows that values infiltrate all aspects of science.
The value-ladenness of evolution does not [in any way] disprove it, which is not my goal anyway. In some ways, I think it would strengthen it. Of course, it would require the opponents of evolution to realize that as well.
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