Explanations of evolution are ideologically and conceptually loaded. A trip to the moon is not.
Was this intentional humour?
The race to the moon was an ideologically driven race to stick it to the capitalists/communists.
And just because science can do something such as create a nuclear weapon doesn't mean it should unless you don't want science to abide by an ethical standards.
Engineers build nuclear weapons, with the assistance of scientists under the funding of government. Is there some knowledge you believe it should be forbidden for humans to acquire through a process of empirical reasoning?
In what way is 'variations more suited to increased replication, will replicate with higher frequencies than those that are not' loaded, and if it is why is that a problem?
Should we have silenced Darwin and Wallace? Is learning how to detect the relatedness of life somehow unethical?
People especially in evolutionary psychology feel entitled to make certain dubious claims "Evolution is true therefore"
There are plenty of fields that are people with those that feel entitled to make dubious claims. 'Creation is true therefore' for a simple counter-example. But I'm sure electricians have plenty of folk making dubious claims and feeling entitled to do so.
I would not surprised that similar body parts require similar DNA arrangements to cause them.
Well it turns out this is not true. For instance placental mice look very similar to marsupial mice - but their genetics are more different from one another than Humans and Blue Whales.
The Jack The Ripper cases shows how vital evidence can be destroyed or inaccessible leaving us not knowing who the serial killer was which leaves the case a mystery. The surrounding evidence is not sufficient to gloss over this crucial absence.
Indeed. But this would only be relevant if biologists were claiming complete knowledge of natural history and relatedness. But you know they are not.
Does the fact that some murders are unsolved lead to the conclusion that forensic science is useless for detecting murders? No? Then the tools of biology can learn some things about natural history, ancestry and relatedness even if in some cases the evidence is lacking or difficult to acquire.
If you posit evolution you have to mould a theory onto the evidence that you otherwise wouldn't.
Of course you mould a theory to the evidence. What other system would make even the remotest sense? Postulating theories disconnected from the evidence? Sounds positively religious to me.
There are varying degrees of falsifiability and plausibility of claims but some claims are giving plausibility by dint of association with the paradigm (see evolutionary psychology)
Ask around - you'll find EP is much maligned because of the just-so stories that plague the field. It isn't all bunk, but there are psychologists that simply don't understand evolution well enough to make the claims they do. The solution is better understanding of evolution.
Are these issues presented to the lay person? I would prefer not to have to do a degree in every subject to get a decent sample of the issues involved.
I don't have a degree in evolutionary biology. They are presented to any lay person interested in finding out. Books are pretty good for that kind of thing.
So a close genetic pattern in families benefits from lots of shared features. Wider genetic similarities are seriously diluted of relevance so that we begin to have similar sequences to a Banana.
Cyctochrome c is common to all (or maybe almost all) life on earth. So yes, of curse we have similar sequences to Banana - we are both multicellular life.
You wouldn't convict a killer based on the DNA being that of a male or being that of and African male. The DNA has to be actually their DNA to make a claim with that kind or level of ramification.
People have been caught because their relatives DNA was collected during investigation. People have been convicted of deliberately spreading virii (such as HIV) based on the relatedness of the carried genomes.
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