Was Darwin the most revolutionary scientist ever? If, by revolutionary, we mean the scientist whose discovery initiated the most seismic overturning of pre-existing science, the honour would at lea...
Was Darwin the most revolutionary scientist ever? If, by revolutionary, we mean the scientist whose discovery initiated the most seismic overturning of pre-existing science, the honour would at least be contested by Newton, Einstein and the architects of quantum theory. Those same physicists might have outclassed Darwin in sheer intellectual fire power. But Darwin probably did revolutionize the world view of people outside science more comprehensively than any other scientist. I want to recognize four bridges to evolutionary understanding. The first bridge is to natural selection as a force for weeding out the unfit. The second bridge is the recognition that natural selection can drive evolutionary change. Bridge number three leads to the imaginative grasp of the importance of natural selection in explaining all of life, in all its speciose richness. Bridge number four is the bridge to public understanding and appreciation. Darwin crossed it alone, in 1859, by writing On the Origin of Species. The fifth bridge, which Darwin himself never crossed was neo-Darwinism or what I shall rename digital Darwinism because the essence of Mendelian genetics is that it is digital. As crests get longer, or eyes rounder, or tails gaudier, what is really being carved by natural selection is the gene pool. As mutation and sexual recombination enrich the gene pool, the chisels of natural selection carve it into shape, working away through geological time. It is an image that might have seemed strange to Darwin. But I think he would have come to love it.
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in my own opinion the longer the speech the probably "less true" cause it takes too loooooooooong to make the point but thats a good brainwash technique especially for studet who have to listen to get their paper of indoctrination
so many make conclusions just from observing nature & aimals, the rooster and the hen? of course thats all true, but open your 3rd eye if u want the absolute Truth otherwise they can talk ad talk forever an u will just be a um "repeater"
@JMackeyIII Not even the Bible has that answer. They just say it came from God, but really... dust and a rib? Last time I checked you can't CPR style DNA into a body and just expect it to poof come to life. Where did God come from then if you know the answer? Also, don't just cop out and say he is or always has been.
The sad thing is that there are fewer evolutionists than creationists in the world. Then again there are also vastly more uneducated people in the world than educated. : ) so there are different groups. "ists" as group reference.
if there's one thing i am grateful to creationists for, it's the ever-amusing invention of the crocoduck. they couldn't make better comedy if they tried.
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are you saying who created God, are you asking is there a bigger God then the infinite all knowing God, that created him.
everything that is, is. so everything that exists at some point most have not existed, it must of come from somewhere.
it can not create itself, that is a contradiction
so somehow it must of come into being. Dawkins nor you answer this.
You reject a perfectly coherent explanation of a creator and call it a cop out.
What a pitiful world would be without poeple like him.
It's the Crocoduck!
I wonder if Kirk Cameron even realizes his ridiculous photoshop piece has become the seal of stupidity for creationist nonsense.
You gotta love those fundies!