(2018-01-08, 06:57 PM)Laird Wrote: No, it's not just language. It's a failed analogy. Scaffolding is supposed to be used to build something. Erosion isn't building, it's wearing away. A hole in a rock is not meaningfully analogous to a biological function, let alone one so complex that it could only have emerged from a - meaningful - scaffolding process.
You point holds up because you've learnt from geologists that erosion is responsible for creating natural stone arches. Now suppose you no longer have that knowledge, how would that change your thinking.
I'm sad I could not persuade you see how a bunch of monkeys typing on a bunch of typewriters could with enough time produce a work of literature. For those critics of Evolutionary Theory to say there's not been enough time have no practical experience of how long time can be.