[YHAOS]

As an acknowledged person unschooled in Science, may I observe for your critical view that the Darwinian idea of Evolution has experienced a turn in fortunes these past dozen or so years, and that we may discover the pursuit of knowledge (that is, of data accumulation and the thinking on it that turns data into knowledge) has begun to illustrate that the limitations of the Theory of Evolution may be similar to the experience Mankind underwent with respect to Newtonian Physics (that is, that it applies only in certain circumstances and is not applicable universally).

In fact, it appears that the Darwinian Theory of Evolution is no more than another way of describing the readily observable and obvious Theory of Natural Selection.

[betty boop]

In fact, it appears that the Darwinian Theory of Evolution is no more than another way of describing the readily observable and obvious Theory of Natural Selection.

Personally, I don't see any reason to expect that a bona-fide theory of Natural Selection is at all dependent on the doctrine of metaphysical naturalism, which is in turn predicated on the metaphysical doctrine of monist, deterministic, yet "chancy" materialism. (How does one make all such varied claims "add up?")

But such folk who promulgate such nonsense insist they are doing "science," by eschewing "philosophy."

Pul-eeze.... give me a break.

Separated from that background premise, Darwin's theory of natural selection might not be all that bad.

Thank you for your valuable insights, dear brother in Christ!