Posted on 05/21/2007 9:33:13 PM PDT by LoserPays3000
A small part. It’s mostly found in the human sciences.
Could you clarify what you mean by the ‘human sciences?’ Thanks.
social science
political science
psychology
historical science
So you would classify evolution as more akin to a social science than biology?
It gets more use in philosophy and social science. It gets used in biology mainly in systems of classification. It is not akin to a social science or biology since it is not a science nor a theory but a law. It is somewhat beyond a mere rule but remains heuristic.
Definitely more philosophy than science! The classification structure is not what people think of, in my view, when the term ‘evolution’ comes up.
I agree. The classification system is not what people have an issue with. It’s the unscientific idea that genetic copying errors could add up to a directional and progressively more advanced set of species. It does not matter how many billions of years or trillions of generations pass, this mechanism does not work.
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