"... another common misuse of evolutionary ideas: namely, the idea
that some trait must have evolved merely because we can imagine a scenario under which possession of that trait would have been advantageous to fitness... Such forays into evolutionary explanation amount ultimately to storytelling... it is not enough to construct a story about how the trait might have evolved in response to a given selection pressure; rather, one must provide some sort of evidence that it really did so evolve. This is a very tall order...."
Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012
that some trait must have evolved merely because we can imagine a scenario under which possession of that trait would have been advantageous to fitness... Such forays into evolutionary explanation amount ultimately to storytelling... it is not enough to construct a story about how the trait might have evolved in response to a given selection pressure; rather, one must provide some sort of evidence that it really did so evolve. This is a very tall order...."
Austin L. Hughes, The New Atlantis, Fall 2012
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?
declare, if thou hast understanding.
Job 38:4