Thus it explains antibiotic resistance, adaptation to the environment, how nylon eating bacteria arose, the high prevalence of sickle cell anemia where malaria is endemic, lactose tolerance into adulthood among cattle raising populations, how wolves were changed into dogs, and how speciation works (at the minimum between “kinds”).
Where are “we” going in evolution? Nowhere fast, as we are a very homologous species with worldwide distribution and reproductive isolation is unlikely.
But if you are attempting to make the argument that evolution is not a predictive science what do you predict will happen when I take a single bacteria, let it grow a bit, then plate it on ten different petri dishes and subject it to ten different stresses?
My prediction is that the petri dish subjected to heat stress will develop as a heat resistant strain of the bacteria, that the one subjected to cold will develop as a cold resistant bacteria, etc, etc.
I agree with your criticism as it applies to “evolutionary sociology” and any other attempts to explain anything humanistic cultural or theological via evolution. It explains everything to an equal degree, and thus really explains nothing.
“Where are “we” going in evolution? Nowhere fast, as we are a very homologous species with worldwide distribution and reproductive isolation is unlikely.”
What will be the next trans-human species? What will be the next bacterial species? Cannot be predicted. That’s why the comparison of gravity/evolution being both predictive is a little hollow, IMO.
“My prediction is that the petri dish subjected to heat stress will develop as a heat resistant strain of the bacteria, that the one subjected to cold will develop as a cold resistant bacteria, etc, etc.”
Understood. Do you have a prediction of what environmental stress you would have to impose to produce a multi-cellular organism evolved from the bacteria? Do we even know what mutations would have to occur to evolve from single to multi cellular.
Thanks for the reply.
If we evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Shouldn’t they have all evolved by now?