| Dodece said: The problem with Natural Selection is that by default it is a wide net. You can't basically reject it, because of all the cross discipline issues that arise. That is something that usually goes ignored. It isn't just a amorphous concept out on the edge. No its right in the center casting forth tendrils into hundreds of fields. It just isn't something that can be removed from the equations. Without Natural Selection in the mix the results aren't forthcoming. The theory is a fundamental keystone. You can't toss it out, anymore then you can toss out Electromagnetism, Thermodynamics, Gravity, or General Relativity. Without Natural Selection entire fields just collapse. Without Natural Selection you have no genetics, epidemiology, botany, pharmacology, animal husbandry, agricultural science, environmentalism, zoology, marine biology, meteorology, paleontology, archaeology, sociology, biology, geology, anatomy, psychology, and well the list is ridiculously long. Natural Selection is the bed rock in so many disciplines you just can't cut it out. The theory is systemic, and it isn't even done infiltrating other sciences yet. The theory is being applied all over the damn place. It is even making it into software applications. Basically by default rejecting natural selection, and believing in most of science isn't even an option. Natural Selection is hard at work bringing you most of what you need. The theory isn't seperate it is all encompassing. The term theory is often being misused. The idea is that it is just an idea. Well it isn't this is an applied science. My point wasn't that rejecting itself was a wide net, but in the case of Natural Selection it is a very wide net. You really can't seperate it from the scientific enterprise as a whole. Just doesn't work that way. Too ingrained, too widespread, and far too critical to understanding. Which is what results in concrete application. Oh by the way off on a tandem. The Amish don't dismiss science, and technology out right. They merely have very rigid rules in regards to its use. So yes they do use science and modern technology. Though honestly I wouldn't see them as hypocritical, because they think of themselves as seperate, and thus feel no need to denounce anything not within their sphere. I see dozens of members of the Amish community on a nearly daily basis. |
First off, geology, meteorology, archaeology, anatomy, psychology, and sociology don't really have anything to do with natural selection because the study of rock formations, weather, artefacts from earlier civilizations, the current formation of the human body, the study of the human psyche, and the study of human society have nothing to do with how the diversity of species happened on this planet.
The other disciplines do heavily use evolution, but in most cases it is used as a blanket explanation of how things came to be, while these fields are mostly focused on the current state of things. If people believed that the current world was 45 years old and created by Zork (the Destroyer) and he willed things to be the way they are it would have a very minor impact to how these fields operated.
Basically, while I believe that creationism is foolish, how you believe the world came to be in no way impacts the observations of how it currently operates.
