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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (84577)8/1/2000 1:17:15 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I think I respectfully disagree. Darwinism was an oversimplification but represented a quantum leap in our ability to predict accurately. Every day examples are available to demonstrate the correctness of the supposition that a niche being found, will be exploited by a formerly different organism by Gradualism. These would be antibiotic resistant bacteria and dioxin eating bacteria found in toxic dumps in the Chicago area. Unfortunately, none of us lives long enough to see this in anything with a long life cycle. We have documented spontaneous changes in lifeforms studied in the lab: Drosophila melanogaster comes to mind as a common example.

Newtonian mechanics is also an oversimplification but is still taught to every physics student first because it is useful and, though incomplete, offers tremendous prediction ability. Current physical thought suggests that even Eisteinian mechanics are an oversimplification of a higher truth consisting of multidimensional interactions between fundamental forces. These are layers of an onion and their discovery leads us to an ultimate truth. But in science, we don't have an ultimate truth until every example can be explained within the context of a theory. If you are only saying Darwin is incomplete and therefore, "untrue", I'd would say were are saying the same thing!! By the same definition, Newtonian mechanics is "untrue" but, that clearly doesn't undermine its utility.
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