RE: Darwin Proven Wrong?
September 12, 2014 at 11:40 am
(This post was last modified: September 12, 2014 at 11:41 am by sswhateverlove.)
(September 12, 2014 at 10:40 am)Stimbo Wrote: But for us, not being omniscient, what is the best way to determine that truth? What do we have at our disposal that might reveal it to us?
I would say the scientific method gives us the ability to learn pieces of the "truth", but without omniscience we don't know for sure that we're not missing some valuable piece that's causing us to misunderstand our data.
All in all, knowing pieces helps us greatly, but to know the total of "truth", well... That's pretty much the point of each of the threads that I've posted, we don't know.
(September 12, 2014 at 10:41 am)Chas Wrote:(September 11, 2014 at 8:09 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: From my research I've found that micro array analysis of the epigenetic expression of organism's genes suggest evidence that methylation and histone status change regularly throughout the life of the organism, not just in the embryo.
Gene expression is regulated by the environment of the cell. This is not a new idea and does not in any way disprove evolution. It does not even modify it greatly.
These mechanisms are part of the modern evolutionary synthesis (neo-Darwinism).
I do not disagree. I am very fascinated, however, with regard to all the possible influential variables involved in epigenetic expression and what that implies regarding the nature of our reality.