To: blowfish
The ToE is not entirely about details either. It is a general picture developed through general assumptions. When it gets down to details there are probably as many ideas about how evolution has taken place as there are books about it. The only general agreement among evolutionists is that evolution happens. They have no guiding documents. They have no means of empirically testing whether their theory is more in accord with objective reality than a different theory. They have only a physical world and their own presuppositions.
If it is only "details" that make for "coherence" then I will have to agree wit you that science offers more detail about the physical world. It is able to do so because the world is intelligently designed and thus intelligible.
To: Fester Chugabrew
The only general agreement among evolutionists is that evolution happens. They have no guiding documents. No, they have something even more powerful. It's called "research".
It is able to do so because the world is intelligently designed and thus intelligible.
You forgot the "In my opinion", but I take that for granted.
To: Fester Chugabrew
When it gets down to details there are probably as many ideas about how evolution has taken place as there are books about it. The only general agreement among evolutionists is that evolution happens. Nonsense. There are plenty, doubtless thousands, of specific proposition that evolutionists all but universally agree on. For instance it has been accepted that dinosaurs (and other archosaurs or "ruling reptiles") share a more recent common ancestor with birds than with other reptiles for, well, nearly 150 years. As another example there is zero doubt that the mammalian inner ear bones evolved from the reptilian jaw joint, and that the relevant homologies apply. I could probably go on for pages and pages if I had more detailed knowledge of specific subfields.
812 posted on
02/02/2006 11:16:43 AM PST by
Stultis
(I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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