RE: Disproving the Bible
July 15, 2014 at 3:06 pm
(This post was last modified: July 15, 2014 at 3:09 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
That's not how it works. Evolution isn't the only possible explanation, and we didn't have to rule everything else out to declare it "the explanation". We only have to show that evolution fits the available evidence better than other explanations, and that it makes predictions that could turn out either way, which it does, and those predictions panned out in favor of evolution. The same would be true for a claim of god or magic as regards the subject at hand.
Providing a single cause "other than" could very easily be limited to the example at hand, specifically. So lets say we find a single species that is demonstrably not of the same genetic lineage as all the rest, absolutely no correlation. That doesn't mean that the rest didn't evolve, but it would show that evolution wasn't the only way to get from a to b. I think that the latter ought to be the bar that the creatards aim for before they ever set their sights on god. Proving evolution wrong, at this point, looks to be a fruitless endeavor. Finding a single example of a creature that got to where it was by processes other than that invoked in evolutionary explanations would be a hell of a breakthrough. Nobel prize type shit. Then, then, they'd have some heft from which to throw a curve.
Providing a single cause "other than" could very easily be limited to the example at hand, specifically. So lets say we find a single species that is demonstrably not of the same genetic lineage as all the rest, absolutely no correlation. That doesn't mean that the rest didn't evolve, but it would show that evolution wasn't the only way to get from a to b. I think that the latter ought to be the bar that the creatards aim for before they ever set their sights on god. Proving evolution wrong, at this point, looks to be a fruitless endeavor. Finding a single example of a creature that got to where it was by processes other than that invoked in evolutionary explanations would be a hell of a breakthrough. Nobel prize type shit. Then, then, they'd have some heft from which to throw a curve.
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