Posted: Dec 03, 2022 1:16 pm
Wortfish wrote:Spearthrower wrote:
Meanwhile, science has and never will have any interest in anything you've got to say because you're not involved in doing science. That's the thing about science - you can sit there incomprehendingly shaking your fist at it all you like, and it achieves bugger all. Science just continues on, unaware of the self-important gnat.
EVO-DEVO tries to explain the diversity of biological form: https://www.sdbonline.org/sites/fly/lew ... uzzleq.htmEvo-devo seeks to decipher how genomic tinkering has resulted in anatomical alterations via developmental reprogramming.
Which shows you didn't read the post, else you would've seen me refer to just-so stories, you would've clicked the link I provided about them, and you wouldn't have felt the need to 'tell me' what was already written in the link you were supposedly replying to.
The Link I Cited And You Ignored wrote:In science and philosophy, a just-so story is an untestable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other animals. The pejorative[1] nature of the expression is an implicit criticism that reminds the listener of the essentially fictional and unprovable nature of such an explanation. Such tales are common in folklore genres like mythology (where they are known as etiological myths – see etiology).
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It has been used to criticize evolutionary explanations of traits that have been proposed to be adaptations, particularly in the evolution–creation debates[4] and in debates regarding research methods in sociobiology[2] and evolutionary psychology.