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In reply to the discussion: So Tucker goes on Rogan and proclaims there is no evidence of evolution. I just did an edit and posted the link. [View all]Model35mech
(1,647 posts)The clever ones among them also redefine 'evolution' and 'evidence' and lean into apparent anomalies that underlie what they perceive to be currently held scientific understanding as they define it. Most of these sorts of approaches depend upon both lack of interpretive ability of their authors and supporters and approaches to evidence that produce, perhaps intentionally, misleading applications of rules of argumentation from outside of science.
The most recent approach is called "Intelligent Design". Wherein it's inventor, a lawyer, advocates with semantics tricks, such as suggesting the existence of undemonstrated evidence ("irreducible complexity) and the misapplication of rules of forensic argument. They insist that this non-evidentiary semantic slight ot hand creates doubt- that fully undermes evolutionary theory. But then they fail to ever show the existence of actual biological things that are irreducibly complex or that things which seem to have purpose could only be produced by a designer building into them an inherent 'purpose'.
All they've ever shown is their own failings of interpretive ability when it is applied to complex, highly ordered natural phenomena. Nonetheless they argue from their terribly weak position of understanding that evolutionists interpretation violates the principal of entropy in the laws of thermodynamics. They actually can't demonstrate positive evidence for a cosmic designer.
Instead, they appeal to popular general scientific ignorance and purposeful misinterpretation arising from the failings of their interpretive abilities.
The most UN-educated ones, who make up many of the ones with the loudest presence in society, remain entrenched in baseless theistic notions that biblical creation narratives are, actually, THE real evidence. And that THAT evidence was provided by an infallible the all-powerful all- knowing designer rather than ancient religious story tellers. They are ignore real cultural evidence in the creation narratives in the bible itself. That evidence illustrates that the creation myth was compiled by multiple bible authors' who mashed together differing versions of creation myths that are inconsistent and in conflict with each other, even as presented in the quite short length of the book of genesis.