RE: Vision and Evolution (A Critique of Dawkins)
August 5, 2019 at 12:00 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2019 at 12:14 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That’s nice, John. Gaps may exist, but the existence of gaps doesn’t mean that your fantasy is one.
Or, for that matter, that if there were some fantasy shaped gap your fantasy would be the fit for it.
I’m not really sure why you think the comparison to Swiss cheese fits. Our theory of evolution is better demonstrated than our theory of gravity. It’s the unifying theory of biology. The most well attested theory in all of the sciences, with multiple lines of evidence from every relevant discipline converging on its contents. Importantly, there has yet to be any evidence to the contrary.
What are we doing here? Turnips exist, therefore leprechauns. That’s not how that works. An endless game if “we don’t know everything”? Fine, but we don’t need to know everything to know something.
Or, for that matter, that if there were some fantasy shaped gap your fantasy would be the fit for it.
I’m not really sure why you think the comparison to Swiss cheese fits. Our theory of evolution is better demonstrated than our theory of gravity. It’s the unifying theory of biology. The most well attested theory in all of the sciences, with multiple lines of evidence from every relevant discipline converging on its contents. Importantly, there has yet to be any evidence to the contrary.
What are we doing here? Turnips exist, therefore leprechauns. That’s not how that works. An endless game if “we don’t know everything”? Fine, but we don’t need to know everything to know something.
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