(June 24, 2014 at 1:07 pm)Cato Wrote: So obvious that it took until the 19th century for someone to discover it. My point is to tread with some caution regarding the obvious claim.
Evolution is needed to describe speciation, not the inheritance of traits within reproductively isolated populations. Animal domestication and husbandry has been around for thousands of years indicating that we've known about this for some time. It took Darwin to discover natural selection and the resulting speciation.
What is much more fair to say is that evolution is perfectly reasonable and demonstrably true given the confluence of evidence along with its explanatory and predictive power. Denying it with what we know today is an extreme position.
I think it is easy sometimes to take the knowledge we have today for granted and undervalue the momentous intellectual achievements of the past.
My point was not absolute but rather took in consideration our temporal context which is our modern era. For anyone who has access to new discoveries and knowledge in science could easily agree that evolution seems plausible, if not true...
