Are there unanswered holes in the “evidence” of evolution?
There are certainly unanswered questions in the evidence of evolution. The question is whether they are unanswerable holes. The study of evolution is partly a retrospective science: how did things evolve the way they did? In that, we’re stuck we the evidence that nature has left us. We understand the evolution of the skeleton extremely well because we have lots of fossil evidence. We also understand the evolution of hard-shelled invertebrates well, for the same reason, with the evidence going back over half a billion years. Other things leave less evidence. The eye is often brought up as an example of irreducible complexity, and in fact it’s difficult to trace the evolutionary history of the eye. But that’s less because of an incapacity to be explained than because eyes don’t leave many fo
