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Author Topic:   The End of Evolution By Means of Natural Selection
crashfrog
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Message 786 of 851 (575708)
08-20-2010 9:12 PM
Reply to: Message 785 by Bolder-dash
08-20-2010 9:04 PM


Re: Zhang and Saier
The theory becomes so flexible and so accommodating as to become meaningless
Any theory of life, evolution or creationism being no exceptions, has to account for the full diversity of life on Earth. It has to be flexible enough to accommodate an explanation for every single living thing. You act like it's a fault that the theory has such wide-ranging explanatory power, that if the theory were true there would be living things it couldn't explain, but that makes no sense.
And it's a double standard, as well; if we observed your hypothetical instant-second-head, and asked you to explain it from the perspective of the "theory" you advocate, what would you do?
Throw up your hands in defeat? I doubt it. Wouldn't you suggest some variant of "God did it"? I mean, couldn't you say that for literally anything at all? "God made it that way." Can you explain why that doesn't make your "theory" "so flexible and so accommodating as to be meaningless"?
By the curious standard you're setting up, the most meaningful theory would have to be the one so inflexible as to explain absolutely nothing at all. Why not?

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crashfrog
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Message 797 of 851 (575877)
08-21-2010 3:00 PM
Reply to: Message 792 by Bolder-dash
08-21-2010 7:09 AM


Re: Zhang and Saier
As someone who studies biology, he has seen that there are plenty of things in nature and science that can't be so easily explained by simple random mutation and natural selection, as you believe.
As someone who has not ever studied biology, why do you believe that this is true? Faith?

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