A Comment About

The Scientific Embrace of Atheism

April 28, 2008 - 12:00 am - by David Berlinski
formerdriver
2008-04-30 07:10:56

Gabriel,
You’re making a leap of logic which I’m not joining you in which is why you think I missed the point.

==Moths can’t pick what colors they wear. They are born in them. If white moths get eaten by birds at double the rate that black moths do, in a few generations you find very few white moths.==

This is true. Just as its true that after a week, there will be a lot less artic wearing troops.

==This is evolution by natural selection, no more, no less.==

This is the leap of logic. As I said “Nobody thinks certain colors don’t have survival advantages in certain situations.” But proving comparative advantage is a very far cry from proving evolution.

You’ve at this point managed to prove what a monk (ewww, a creationist!) named Mendel proved with peas a few centuries or so ago. Cutting edge of science and all that…but proving Mendelian genetics does not prove Darwinian evolution. One is Science, and is repeatable, testable, and makes predictions, and the other is Dorm Room Speculation.

BTW, natural selection is a conservative force. It contributes to keeping genomes stable in the main. It is kind of funny that Darwin’s main engine of change actually works against change.