What are the Holes in Evolution?

[TheOutsider]

So these things in no way related to evolution. There is no connection whatsoever?

I guess if you want to talk about a "Grand Unified Theory of Everything Ever" then they could be connected. The theory of evolution goes back to The Common Ancestor (about 4 billion years ago) and stops. It doesn't cover anything before that. It doesn't cover how that Common Ancestor got here (could have been God, could have been aliens, could have been self-replicating organic compounds following the laws of physics). It doesn't cover how the earth formed. It doesn't cover how the universe formed before that (could have been El, VOID, Zeus, Odin, some deistic god-force, Flying Spaghetti Monster, or a couple of branes rubbing together). The theory of evolution doesn't care about any of that. It just explains how we went from a simple common ancestor to the many complex species that we see today.

I should correct my previous comment. I meant to say "humanistic naturalism" and not "methodical naturalism".

 

[Nathan Poe]

So these things in no way related to evolution. There is no connection whatsoever?

Nope, they are completely separate fields of science, which arrive at their conlusions independently of each other.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

So these things in no way related to evolution. There is no connection whatsoever?

The models proposed by each field are derived independantly, yet coincide perfectly. Coincidence?