Given how modern science is hyped up to the public, it's really hard to admit you don't know and _can't_ know.
And yet it's actually obvious to a careful thinker that we really can't know whether evolution occurs exclusively by established methods. We know we have CRISPR, so at least this hypothesis is not true today. How high is the possibility that CRISPR was performed by some mysterious entity in the past millions of years?
Not even talking about alien stuff -- is it really not possible at least that some other animal, eg. some form of dinosaur, had invented this technology and later got wiped out by some global cataclysm? They had hundreds of millions of years to do this.
Of course we don't have any evidence either way -- and for some reason Occam's Razor tells us that we can just assume the simpler story is the actual story. Even if, as mentioned, there's actually no evidence either way.
And yet it's actually obvious to a careful thinker that we really can't know whether evolution occurs exclusively by established methods. We know we have CRISPR, so at least this hypothesis is not true today. How high is the possibility that CRISPR was performed by some mysterious entity in the past millions of years?
Not even talking about alien stuff -- is it really not possible at least that some other animal, eg. some form of dinosaur, had invented this technology and later got wiped out by some global cataclysm? They had hundreds of millions of years to do this.
Of course we don't have any evidence either way -- and for some reason Occam's Razor tells us that we can just assume the simpler story is the actual story. Even if, as mentioned, there's actually no evidence either way.