(September 27, 2017 at 9:46 am)bennyboy Wrote: Evolution is one of the areas in science that bother me. It's not that I don't believe in it-- in fact, I think evolution is a fundamental property of any system with complexity, bonded interactions, and time.
My problem is that when we talk about the evolution of a species, we are talking about a species as though it's a thing. This strikes me as somewhat mythological: humans cannot evolve (except in a different sense intellectually perhaps), but what it means to be human is slowly shifting-- there's a kind of Archetypal Man who is changing over time, both genetically and memetically (if I can coin that term).
So what, exactly, is changing over time? Nothing, in fact, is changing, at all, ever, in evolution, any more than colors change from red to blue in a rainbow. Nothing is developed, and yet it obviously IS developed.
If you accept evolution as fact, then even if it bothers you, then your objections are moot. Facts don't change.
If anything were to change in the scientific fact of evolution, it wouldn't cause a flat out debunking, it would just get a updated tweak. Just like astrophysicists once thought our galaxy was the extent of the universe, bigger telescopes came along and caused us to rethink the size of the universe.
All science is still based on the same principle of observation, testing, falsification, control groups and peer review. So in regards to evolution, anything new we discover in the future will still not negate that all DNA that creates different looks is still a shuffle, like a deck of cards. The back of the card is the DNA all life shares, and the face card are the tiny differences that change over long periods of time that cause each card to look slightly different.
I am not really sure what your objection would be, or should be if you accept evolution as fact.
