What's New in Philosophy of Science?

RE: What's New in Philosophy of Science? by Bora Dogan 2002

The first part is good. But the theory of evolution helps scientists "predict or EXPLAIN" all the time.

Evolution is one of the most prolific theories ever discovered. Evolution explains, for example, why our brains are wrapped in 3 layers with the most primitive in the deepest inside and the most advanced in pre-frontal. If you have a tumor in your "reptilian" brain, I'm especially sorry for you, b/c it can press on your murderous rage button, as it did to the Texas tower
shooter.

Scientists use evolution to predict/explain the behavior of deviants: There is a whole new literature on certain types of criminals that we now have a good understanding about b/c of the theory of evolution. Evolution also shows that humans not only share chimp traits, but also bonobo traits -- which is why humans have evolved for affiliation to such a great degree.

The super-Christian anti-evolutionists say that evolution theorizes that we are a product of randomness. An evolutionist would never say any such thing. This is a complete falsehood.

Evolution is the farthest thing from randomness b/c God (or the universe or the flying spaghetti monster) created the evolution mechanism such that every living organism would be perfectly suited to his environment and all these perfect-for-their-environment creations have to achieve balance with every other one as a unified whole. Fills you with wonder, doesn't it?

So thank God for humans evolving with oxytocin. Put the stuff in the water supply.