Details of how evolution works constantly changing? You mean like Darwin said two plus two equals five but the Bible says no, two plus two equals four.
The Darwinist responds that its been found that two plus three equals five so the ideas of Darwin are correct.
Darwin didn’t know much about how evolution worked, and much of what he THOUGHT he knew has turned out to be either wrong or incomplete. however, why he’s generally considered the greatest biologist in history, is that (along with Wallace) he could see for the first time that evolution is mathematically inevitable based on some simple facts:
1. per Malthus, populations unrestrained by increasing death rates grow exponentially, and eventually population growth MUST outrun food (and/or other key resource) supply.
2. in species that reproduce sexually, offspring are not just like their parents nor just like their siblings. There is *variation* in reproduction.
3. There is also *conservation* in reproduction: offspring are (statistically) more like their parents and like their siblings than their are like randomly selected members of the species at large.
4. The variation in members of a species will cause a (statistical) variance in successful reproduction rate. For example, in a simple world of foxes and rabbits, near the Mathusian limit, faster foxes will eat more rabbits and hence survive to reproduce, while slower foxes on average will be less successful at survival to the point of reproduction.
If you THINK about it, if 1, 2, 3, & 4 are true (which they are) then the inevitable logical/mathematical result is that over time the members of species will (statistically) drift towards being better suited to their environment.
THAT’S Darwin’s Dangerous Idea. And that’s about all of Darwin’s conjectures that have withstood our rapidly growing knowledge of what really is going on.
If you don’t “believe” in Darwinian evolution in that narrow sense, you don’t believe in logic (or of course you could be successful in refuting 1, 2, 3, or 4 ... good luck with that!).
>Details of how evolution works constantly changing? You mean >like Darwin said two plus two equals five but the Bible says >no, two plus two equals four.
>The Darwinist responds that its been found that two plus >three equals five so the ideas of Darwin are correct.