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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: Lane3 who wrote (2921)10/17/2006 1:34:54 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
Once again, I am not suggesting you attribute it to evolution. My point has to do with your insistence that it cannot be attributable to evolution.

Actually my point has been a little more subtle than that. I don't think we should attribute things to evolution if we can't infer an evolutionary mechanism. And when we can't do so, the God answer is as good as any other explanation - so we shouldn't respond to Mr. Colson's opinion by saying he's wrong. We don't have a reason to know that.

Just because no one here, or perhaps anywhere, has yet offered a mechanism that meets your standards doesn't mean that there cannot be one.

I haven't read of any mechanism offered at all other than it just developed naturally from chimp pant-hoots, gibbon territorial songs, etc. No reason given for why the musical ability should change. It just happened naturally is not a mechanism.

If I can acknowledge the possibility, however remote, as I have, that it could turn out that there is a god who designed it that way, you can acknowledge the possibility that it happened naturally. Especially when it's no skin off your nose to do so.

I thought I'd done something like that when I responded to (Tim Fowler?)'s suggestion that random mutation could be responsible. I did allow that that was an alternative that would dispense with the need for a mechanism, though we were now in a area of extremely unlikely (remote to use your word) odds.
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