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I’ve mastered in Philosophy not even in science philosophy but I had my share of courses and reading on the subject.
I look at paleontology and all the theories in the natural sciences from outside, but still there are things that my philosophical perspective enables me to see rather clearly.
Theories in science are reductionist, they take all that we know in their field of study and try to find rules that can explain everything in a satisfactory manner.
Sure there are usually few rules, the theories are receptive to actual findings and they are constantly evolving but still. Reality is explained as rational most of the time.
This is not the case in field of modern physics that seem to wonder in the land of casualness at least to a degree.
I’ve read Manabu post about his thesis and it sounded really interesting the attempt to really see structure in the bite force of Dino, birds and cats and the evolution from one to the other. It is such a huge period to investigate change over but observing things over long period of times is usually a great way to observe changes.
The thing that I want to add is that it is a mistake to ignore the diversity of species that have existed and are still existing by explaining them all as a rational process of change and evolution.
Sure once a specie is there he would do his best to evolve so he would be the best specie he could be but the coexistence and branching to so many different forms of life deserve a wider explanation. Diversity is by itself a mechanism of nature and it has a value in making sure that at all situation there would be at least some species that survives.
It is the logic of the bigger “specie” that creates the smaller ones and each of them operates then by the same mechanism.
So... what do you think? Please leave me a comment.
