The Ultimate Puzzle

Here’s just a rough sketch from what I can remember from my early years in college level biology and philosophy.

Darwinian theory was the vital piece in the biological jigsaw puzzle. It was the driving force that unified so many disciplines of biology, like Mendelian genetics, population genetics, systematics, botany, zoology and modern molecular genetics and cell biology.

These disciplines are now bound together by Darwinian theory… to yield what is called "the modern synthesis" or "Neo-Darwinism".

In the late 1800s, Mendelian patterns of genetic inheritance were clearly observed and could be measured. It wasn’t until the early 1900s that Mendel’s work was revisited and properly connected with observations in population genetics.

The modes of inheritance and observations in populations of vairous species was perfectly consistent with Darwin’s theory of natural selection, which predicted such observations.

But still no one knew what the units of inheritance were? UNTIL…

The advent of modern molecular genetics in the middle of the last century which demonstrated the molecular basis of how the patterns of inheritance were observed and how chromosomes/DNA were the units of inheritance and the genetic material…. It all came together so elegantly… which one can only expect from genuine science and a robust scientific theory. You had two levels coming together nicely, the macro level (populations, morphology, diversity) and the micro level (cells, genes, DNA)

The jigsaw puzzle was finally revealing the picture of biological reality and that picture was very elegant. Evolutionary theory itself was confirmed as well as playing the vital role of unifying all of the major disciplines of biology. The coherence between evolutionary theory and the disciplines was astounding…! All this came together in the mid 1900s!…. BUT THEN….. in the 1970s there was a new kid on the block called "SOCIOBIOLOGY"!!!!!!

At this very moment as we speak, the modern, more nuanced version of socio-biology is "evolutionary-psychology" or more generally "philosophy of biology" or "evolutionary philosophy". This is one of the newest most exciting, cutting edge of the sciences around. It is further revealing the jigsaw puzzle picture of reality… and this time it is not just crude biological reality but also social/psychological reality. It’s gonna be HUGE!!!

This new science is massively unifying so many other disciplines like psychology, neuroscience, ethics, morality, behavior, history, intelligence, consciousness… and so on.

The irony is that evolutionary theory is so powerful that it can explain plausibly why people are inclined to be creationists. It can explain why we have our moral intuitions, why we feel disposed to believe certain things and act in certain ways… evolutionary theory is the bridge or glue that brings together the life sciences and humanities/social science.

The jigsaw puzzle is exponentially growing!!! Evolutionary theory is clearly the single most important, significant and profound theory of science. In my opinion it is on a par with, or if not, more significant than Newtonian mechanics, relativity and quantum theory, which are still looking for that glue to bind them together and complete the science of physics.

In contrast, Biology has been MADE! Completed! Unified! "owned" by evolutionary theory. Without evolutionary theory all of biology would still be lame…. without any legs to stand on other than the crutches of religious thought and pseudoscience.

Evolutionary theory is the grandest of grand unifying theories around because we have already seen how it is grandly unifying! and it still has more to come! We are social creatures made from flesh and bone… Evolutionary theory is the link between genes and memes! It is the bridge between meat and culture!…

Evolutionary theory cannot be any more emphatic when it comes to making god redundant. Thus when it comes to explaining the living universe it is therefore indeed more powerful than any gap-filler god that has been invoked throughout human existence.

That is the all-powerful nature of science folks!
Funny how a theist claims that this or that is just a theory and that theories can be right or wrong!!!…And that one should keep an open mind!!!

It’s a pity that some have declared their belief in god to be true and closed off any possibility that they might be wrong.

You ask, Christians? Have you ever wondered how science works? & whether God is more powerful than evolutionary theory?

My answer is no, I have not, I have studied science and know pretty well how it works. If god is more powerful than the theory then he approves of and apparently has ordered things in remarkable agreement with said theory, which may be reason to reevaluate so called sacred books that seem to be mistaken about the facts of evolution.

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