(May 21, 2012 at 4:41 pm)Hovik Wrote:Alter2Ego Wrote:They eliminate an intelligent designer and end up with a theory that is full of holes.
If you have a puzzle that's 95% completed except for a few holes here and there, you get a pretty damn good idea of what the picture is. If you're building a puzzle that displays a picture of a duck, you're not going to get 95% of the way there and go "Wow, I really don't see a duck. It must be a fucking house!"
Hell you can tell what a picture is going to be for the most part with 50% of the puzzle complete. Fortunately though, evolution is much more complete than that. The theory of evolution is full of holes, but they happen to be small ones in less than important places.
Theory of evolution is really 2 separate things:
change over time by natural selection (Organisms can change over time, often quite drastically, and the change is due to natural selection acting on random variations)
And then common descent. Common descent is the idea that all life evolved from a common ancestor (it also encompasses in it the idea that change occurs over time)
It is a fact that change occurs, and that all life is descended from a common ancestor, it is one of the most supported ideas in science today. Even many intelligent design advocates accept this. Michael Behe accepts the second one, he agrees that all life descended from a common ancestor, he just believes that instead of natural selection acting on variation causing the change, that it is guided by a creator. Natural selection definitely occurs and is a strong driving force of evolution, but it may not be the only one. There may be other forces at work yet to be discovered, although natural selection is widely accepted as the primary driving force of evolution.
