RE: Is there no alternative to evolution?
July 23, 2015 at 1:57 pm
(This post was last modified: July 23, 2015 at 2:06 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Evolution isn't about "what could have happened", it's what the evidence suggests -did- happen, even if there are millions of other possible ways to arrive at where we are, the evidence suggests that we took this path, this route, not some possible or plausible "other" route.
If, for example, there are gods out there creating life on planets, they don't seem to have done so on this planet - and regardless of the truth of that assumption of the existence and ability of creative gods.....it has little bearing on what happened here, which is all that our current theory of evolution concerns itself with....and no, there is no evidence that we did not evolve. There is both a -fact- of evolution, and a theory as to how that;s occurred. People constantly confuse the two, or feel that discrediting our current theory of how that evolution was accomplished would discredit evolution itself. It wouldn't. Our current theory is an attempt to explain an observed fact. Any explanation of that fact necessarily accepts evolution - it simply disagrees on the manner in which it was achieved.
If, for example, there are gods out there creating life on planets, they don't seem to have done so on this planet - and regardless of the truth of that assumption of the existence and ability of creative gods.....it has little bearing on what happened here, which is all that our current theory of evolution concerns itself with....and no, there is no evidence that we did not evolve. There is both a -fact- of evolution, and a theory as to how that;s occurred. People constantly confuse the two, or feel that discrediting our current theory of how that evolution was accomplished would discredit evolution itself. It wouldn't. Our current theory is an attempt to explain an observed fact. Any explanation of that fact necessarily accepts evolution - it simply disagrees on the manner in which it was achieved.
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