I read in Life Unfolding an interesting quote that I just had to write it down. The quote stated “The Major “Art” of Science is to perceive General Truths from a limited amount of examples, and the history of science is replete with instances of this: the movement of just a few planets led to Kepler’s Laws and thence to Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, the layering of a few rock formations in Scotland led Hutton to formulate the first modern geological theory for the whole Earth, and the variations between relatively few species studied by Darwin led to the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection that applies to all life.” I also would like to add that those few planets studied by Kepler where the same that Copernicus used earlier to remove us and Earth out from the center of universe to a place where we belong. General Truths are tentative with uncertainty, Truths that are subject to change, modifications, and complete eliminations, but these Truths keep mankind out of the Dark Ages.
Those that oppose Evolution, what to see the Transitional forms as Darwin predicted in his Origin of Species book. However, they want transition showing each form going from one form to another on a step by step basis. Well, there are several problems with this request and that is the fossil record. The fossil record was not made for Man and it is not like a book in which you can read every word, sentence, paragraph, and chapter. The fossil record was not authored for us and it is a non-intelligent natural process caused by plate tectonics along with physical laws of nature. However, we don’t need a step by step transitional process to make references to the basic truths of evolving animals.
I’m going to stray off the subject matter about transitional forms for a bit to make a very good analogy of a World War II situation that was instrumental in winning the war in the pacific. After Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy intelligence had after few months could deceiver JN-25b Japanese Code, but as one Admiral Nimitz navy commanders asked on how much could they deceiver, the intelligent officer said about 10%. The navy officer said, “you didn’t break there code, you only guessing.” “No” said the intelligent officer “we call it analysis”. However, within a month and only 10% of the code deceived along with other entrapment information sent by the Navy’s Intelligent. Admiral Nimitz navy forces was able to stop Japan’s advancement at the Battle of the Coral Seas and defeat Admiral Yamamoto battle fleet with their loss of four carriers at the Battle of Midway. Now let see what would have happen, if Admiral Nimitz would have waited until his Intelligence deceiver the whole JN-25b code or even just a majority of it. The Battle of Coral Sea would not have taken place and japan would have advanced further into the Pacific area. Nimitz’s navy would have been defeated at the Battle of Midway. Pearl Harbor would have become a Japanese naval base. The west coast of America would be a Province of the Japanese Empire. If you need 100% or complete information of anything you are definitively going to lose wars. This is reason that Benghazi event was a disaster for America, Obama and Hilary Clinton in which they were waiting for more complete information. While they were waiting the enemy struck killed the ambassador along with members of his staff. Air Power was still at the airstrip, troops were still in their barracks and Obama and Hilary were still waiting for confirmation.
We don’t need a complete step by step transitional forms of species, we only need a few forms to make an analysis of changing species and/or phylum’s from previous creatures. Archaeopteryx is definitively a reptile that has bird characteristics and we can infer that birds evolved from reptiles. This has also been confirmed from bird like reptiles found in China. The discovery of Tiktaalik in 2006 can scientists infer that amphibians evolved from fish and this creature filled a missing slot of post evolution of amphibians in the Devonian. If anyone needs complete information on any historical or natural event, DO NOT GO INTO SCIENCE OR WAR, you will go nowhere and you will only be frustrated and be defeated. The Art of Science is to make general truths with limited information. The Art of War is to make the best analysis from limited information and act on it.
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