(September 12, 2014 at 10:02 am)sswhateverlove Wrote: Spent 3 hours watching Tyson's doc "The Inexplicable Universe" before coming on here. We should probably blame him for my doubts as he insists over and over that scientists know very little about the "truth" of reality with regard to the specific topics I posted about.The impression I get is that you seem to be asking if such things as dark matter or dark energy should be taken into account when considering how mutations occur and organisms evolve. But without knowing what dark matter or dark energy actually are and how they work, I don't see how that would be useful.
It's like saying that maybe dark matter or dark energy are the key to resolving the global warming problem, or the key to eradicating malaria, or to developing low-salt potato chips that don't taste bland. I think we learn faster if we focus our efforts, but this is akin to having a blindfolded chimp tossing darts at a chart of ideas.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
