RE: Proving evolution?
December 29, 2022 at 5:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 29, 2022 at 6:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(December 29, 2022 at 4:35 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(December 29, 2022 at 4:08 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's not even the theory of evolution. Inheritance with variation is genetics. Mendel worked that one out. Still a useful example. Let's say that inheritance with variation is not the way anything works - we would still be searching for why parents children are similar, but not identical. That's the observation that a theory or hypothesis attempts to explain.
Yes, that is the theory of evolution. No, that's not what Mendel worked out. And now, you've worn out your welcome with bullshit defenses.
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Bullshit defenses of what? That is not the theory of evolution, which is called modern snyth - which does include but is not fully described by genetics, which mendel did work out. Now, we could possibly bicker over whether it was just or only mendel...just as we could note that there were people other than darwin working on ns - which is also included in evolutionary theory. However, none of that will change the fact that what you described is not the theory of evolution, nor will it change the fact that a scientific theory is an explanation for a thing, and not the thing itself. That theories can and have been wrong, but the observations they were meant to explain survive their abandonment.
That theory is supported by a pile of successful multi-disciplinary theories and factual observations - the bit another poster mentioned about a rabbit, for example..coming from geology and physics. Modern synth is so strong, as a matter of interest, that finding an animal in "the wrong place" would cause us (and has caused us) to reconsider our knowledge of the geology of an area, or the physics of a dating method, before it would cause us to reconsider whether environmental circumstances can exert selective pressures on population genetics. If the whole bit, from top to bottom, biology to geology to physics were all wrong..we would still be in search of some explanation for the changes we can directly observe in life, and for the evidence of those changes we also find in the fossil record (and, not for nothing..for pretty much every other observed thing as well - hence the theory's moniker as the most well supported of all scientific theories). We might...then... as some creationist nuts do, contend that these changes occur because gods speak them into being, and because gods want them to be that way. That is evolution by magic and artificial selection, as opposed to evolution by genetics and natural selection.
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