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Do you find the answer “variation and natural selection” to the question “how could evolution possibly have occurred" unsatisfactory? If so, it’d be interesting
by robga 4y ago
Do you find the answer “variation and natural selection” to the question “how could evolution possibly have occurred" unsatisfactory? If so, it’d be interesting to understand why.
- jononomo 4y ago"Natural selection" presumes that there are already options to select from. So nature will "select" a bird that has functioning wings over a bird born with deformed and malfunctioning wings. But where did the wings come from in the first place? That is the real question. That word "variation" does not answer that question and nor do the words "random mutation" because the question is HOW it happened, not WHETHER it happened. "There was a variation that got selected" is obviously true, but what made that variation? How did it happen? Why did it happen? To say "it just happened randomly" is to suggest something even less intelligible than to say "God created it". So far no one has suggested any MECHANISM to shed any light on evolution.