What Evolution Cannot Explain
I was reading through some blogs and news one day and came across a post on the blog The Panda's Thumb. The post was commenting on an article, from a South Carolina newspaper, describing the defects in evolution.
The following is an excerpt of the anti-evolutionist's argument:
The theory of evolution does not and cannot explain so much about the universe that we know. For instance, when and how did water evolve? How does it happen that gravity can hold us to the Earth, and at the same time allow us to step up without any trouble? How did it happen that the Earth is spinning at the exact rate that keeps us from feeling that movement?After I stopped laughing, I did have to ask myself, did water really evolve from apes? And how is it that the Earth does spin at the "exact rate that keeps us from feeling that movement" and yet, when men walked on the moon, which spins (rotates) at a different rate, that rate too was the exact rate that kept them from feeling the movement?
We may never know these answers.
posted by BeingHuman @ 11:24 AM
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That's hysterical. And pathetic.
...and wrong... cosmological theories that are absolutely continuous with evolutionary theories. Evolutionary thinking - or theories 100% compatible with evolutionary thinking - does in fact explain things the accumulation of molecules such as water in various environments in the cosmos. There are also speculations that the laws of physics themselves may arise from evolutionary processes. The physicist Lee Smolin writes about this in his book "The Life of the Cosmos".
The moment evolution-deniers open their mouths about science, they instantly wax idiotic.
To Anon: Your point is not entirely clear to me. However, I will respond to it as I understand it.
Evolutionary theory is not applicable to physics, specifically because it relates primarily to the selection of certain forms over others.
With regard to water, there is not selection for or against the presence of water at any particular place in the univererse, if water is stable under the conditions that are present there, and the components of water are present.
Regarding the development of the laws of physics. They are very much static. They do not fluctuate or are not replaced by some more suitable law law.
That your argument completely misunderstands not only evolution but physics and chemistry as well leads me to believe that I must be missing your point. Please clarify and I'd be more than happy to respond more fully to that.
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