RE: Thoughts
October 3, 2017 at 3:12 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2017 at 3:18 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(October 3, 2017 at 2:09 pm)Whateverist Wrote:(October 3, 2017 at 1:56 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Nor does neo-Darwinism account for the massive number of mutations required just to implement an opportunistic re-purposing of an existing feature. I'm not saying that it cannot happen, just that "chance-in-the-gaps" isn't even close to being plausible.
So how important is evolution-no/creation-yes to your faith? If very, I don't think you're building on solid ground.
It's not very important to me but you probably already knew that. I just think both sides have moved beyond what the most recent science seems to be suggesting, i.e. that there is some unknown teleological component(s) to evolutionary processes. I think the ID advocates point out serious flaws in the neo-Darwin paradigm but I also don't see a clear indication of external agency directing natural selection. On the other hand, the neo-Darwinists are ignoring that the odds are so astronomically stacked against chance that the synthesis has become untenable.