Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
There is a very big difference between finding patterns and having firm evidence. We don't find patterns in the fossil layer because it is what it is. We do not have to speculate to see that life has evolved over the eons because we have proof. We can see how genetic replication occurs without letting our human brains try to fill in the gaps.Your argument is a double-edged sword, and I'd argue the edge pointing at your view is much sharper than the edge pointing at mine. Let's not forget, the overwhelming majority of evolutionary biology comes down to patterns: Patterns in the fossil record, patterns in morphology, patterns in genomes, etc. -- patterns which allegedly show relatedness, gradual change, and common descent. Shall we apply your critique to it?
"Evolution's not real; it's just our pattern-seeking brains looking for meaning where there is none."
Works for me.
When you say "when I look out in the world and see" you are seeing patterns, and speculating without evidence. When you say "I am examining the evidence," you are looking at what we have, things that definitely exist, and putting them together as they fit into the larger picture. There is speculation, but the scientific method makes it very possible, and very easy, to rearrange the pieces when we have found a piece that makes the other pieces fit together better (which is not likely to happen with evolution given we have a heaping mountain of evidence to support it). When you say there is a designer, you have no solid evidence, and it is really no different than trying to say there is a face in the clouds. You may be convinced there is a face there, but there is no way to objectively state this as a fact as there is no way to actually prove there is a face there.