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Originally Posted by Daradon
I will agree that QM is more unfinished than evolution, for sure I understand that. It was simply the first thing I could think of that made more sense to compare evolution to as a theory compared to your first comparison of the law of gravity.
As for the jumps, some of them may be origins of life questions, but I know a few of them were already in the evolutionary period. I'll take a look. I guess it all depends on where you say, 'a simple beginning' started. Did it start with the first one-celled organism? First multi-celled organism? Somewhere after?
Maybe this is where a lot of people get hung up on it and where confusions and arguments occur.
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Jumps are what we see as 'gaps' in Evolution, clearly the gaps occur because we are dealing with such an immense time frame and something that isn't easily evidenced.
Evolution and the theory starts at the start of life, so we do expect a primitive single cell to evolve into all life today.
DNA shows us just how likely this idea is, being that we share a high percentage of DNA to all life on earth, especially the higher primates.
I agree though, when it comes to Evolution in North America we've failed at truly explaining the simplicity and genius of what Darwin came up with. Science and the most brilliant minds in Science are often very bad at bridging the gap from the Science world into the world of every day people.
We need a new
Carl Sagan. Attenborough has done a lot for naturalists, but in the US I would doubt more than a small percentage would have a clue who he is, seen any of his work, or be inspired by his passion and life's work on the natural world and his contributions to evolution.