11.28.09
Evolution as metaphysical enterprise
Evolutionary thinking is basically a metaphysical enterprise attempting to generalize about what it cannot properly observe: Limits of Observation
The ID argument is a giveaway: a prime metaphysical gambit, that can never be verified directly.
John A. Davison said,
November 28, 2009 at 6:51 pm
The reason I believe, that evolution cannot be observed, is because it is no longer in progress. I am not the first to question contemporary evolution.
“The period of great fecundity is over: present biological evolution appears as a weakened process, declining or near its end. Aren’t we witnessing the the remains of an immense phenomenon close to extinction. Aren’t the small variations which are being recorded everywhere the tail end, the last oscillations of the evolutionary movement? Aren’t our plants, our animals lacking some mechanisms which were present in the early flora and fauna?
Pierre Grasse, Evolution of Living Organisms, page 71.
I answer yes to each of Grasse’s three questions. We should also remember that long before Grasse, Julian Huxley, who somehow remained a Darwinian selectionist, stated in no uncertain language that evolution was finished long ago a conclusion the Darwinians still pretend he never reached.
“But all in the long run have TERMINATED blindly. That of the echinoderms, for instance, reached its CLIMAX before the end of the mesozoic. For the arthropods, represented by their highest group, the insects, the FULL STOP seems to have come in the early Cenozoic: even the ants and bees have made NO ADVANCE since the Oligocene. For the birds, the Miocene marked THE END; for the mammals, the Pliocene.”
.Julian Huxley, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, page 571, only seven pages from the end, my emphasis in Caps.
When the Darwinists must ignore one of their own, you know something is fundamentally flawed in their purposeless view of the great mystery of phylogeny. They also ignored Theodosius Dobzhansky when he failed through intensive selection to transform Drosophila melanogaster into a new species in the same Genus, a failure he publicly acknowledged! He too, like Huxley, failed to come to grips with his own conclusions, thereby illustrating the triumph of blind ideology over hard cold facts. As I say so often on my weblog –
“It is hard to believe isn’t it?
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