(December 31, 2016 at 1:44 pm)AAA Wrote: I know that's not the point you were making. Demanding that I peer-review my ideas before you take them seriously is a joke. If that is what you are waiting for, then we aren't going to get anywhere.But that's how science is done. If you feel that the theory is flawed in any way you can post your concerns here --which as you note, doesn't get us anywhere-- or you can show how it's wrong using the mechanisms in place to do so and changing the course of biology for the better. I'm not waiting for you to do it. If you're right, someone else will eventually do it. If you're wrong, then my unwillingness to take your ideas seriously was justified.
Quote:And no, the authors almost certainly attribute the source of the amazing features and systems they describe to evolutionary forces. I just put those out to show that there are conclusions with what I believe to be theistic implications commonly presented in the peer-reviewed literature.Do they really just attribute it? Because that should be challenged, it seems to me. If all they have is a belief in evolution and all they do is attribute their findings to evolution, they've left an immeasurably large amount of work undone. Why isn't anyone turning the scientific community on its ear by pointing out this enormous problem?
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould