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Posted by Eskelian on Wed 31-Dec-69 07:00 PM
Can you observe a species as it evolves sight or not? Me thinks I smell bull.

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In my quest for trying to explain what I'm saying better, someone pointed out to me that what I'm saying is documented in epistomology. Basically, in terms of contextualism, you can argue that microevolution is observable in a given context and therefore we have knowledge of microevolution. We don't have knowledge of macroevolution, we've never seen it happen. Your extrapolation of microevolution to macroevolution isn't knowledge, its your belief, there is justification for that belief but not in an infallible manner. Therefore it can be said that your belief in macroevolution via Darwin's theory is in your mind knowledge because its indefeasible. Sadly if I were to say "a higher being guides the hand of mutations", its an equally indefeasible argument. Neither can be defeated, but neither can be proved. Thus, I feel the "correct answer" is "we don't know".

Dig?