RE: Problems with the theory of evolution.
January 9, 2014 at 8:04 pm
(This post was last modified: January 9, 2014 at 8:05 pm by Mudhammam.)
(July 11, 2013 at 3:49 am)Esquilax Wrote: Well, here's your first mistake: it doesn't. Evolution is a theory that solely deals with existing life, and it makes no claim as to anything that happened before life existed, nor the creation of the universe, nor even the creation of life. Just what happens to life over time. Creationists like to conflate evolution with things like abiogenesis and the beginnings of the universe in order to make the theory seem ridiculous and overreaching, but when they do so, they're simply incorrect.
Rocks aren't alive at all, and since evolution is a process that only occurs within living things that can breed, of course it wouldn't have happened with rocks.
Are you sure about this? I'm currently reading Darwin's Dangerous Idea by Dan Dennett, and he argues that Darwinian evolution is like a "universal acid: it eats through just about every traditional concept, and leaves in its wake a revolutionized world-view, with most of the old landmarks still recognizable, but transformed in fundamental ways." Didn't Darwin strike upon a broader principle with his theory of evolution, an algorithm, that can be applied to nearly if not everything (Evolution of religion, morality, psychology...laws of physics, universes, etc.)?
