RE: Literal and Not Literal
September 9, 2019 at 1:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2019 at 1:55 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(September 9, 2019 at 1:04 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: In short, I’m asking you whether there’s anything unscientific (or even different) about evolutionary biology, compared to what you do accept of biology.....or if you simply use that as a way of communicating your preference for a literal reading of some portion of a myth.
I think scientists can be unscientific at times. Phylogenies are classified as hypotheses, for example. The moment someone treats them as verified observations, as you seem to have done by comparing them to paternity tests, it becomes unscientific. Trait adaptations are often unverifiable hypotheses; the moment such hypotheses are treated as verified just because they are consistent with the theory, it becomes unscientific.