08.20.08
Natural selection and its obsessive kneejerk defense
A comment on some remarks about natural selection
Quoth No-man: How can we test the hypothesis that natural selection is the main driver of human evolution? We can’t. So why assume it, and claim it as somehow proven
How can we test the hypothesis that nuclear fusion is the main driver of the Sun’s energy? We can’t. So why assume it, and claim it as somehow proven?
How can we test the hypothesis that gravitational force is the main driver of planetary orbits? We can’t. So why assume it, and claim it as somehow proven?
These are just word games. Natural selection has many implausible aspects to it, therefore we have a need and a scientific right (and duty) to demand greater evidence at a higher standard. That simple. In rightly conducted science that would be obvious, but such is the obsession, the trained obsession, in the current generation of pseudo-science masquerading as Big Science promoting Darwinism, that it is impossible for people to get out of the Dawkins style of natural selection dogma.
The comparisons with physics are not relevant. Everything in physics is far better documented by evidence. It is not appropriate to compare physics with biology on this issue.
In the final analysis natural selection if false, and a look at history in the light of the eonic effect makes that clear enough to start demanding the correct standard of evidence.