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Why is evolution considered the central tenet of biology?
I'm not a
biologist (although I married one), but it looks to me like evolution
has become a philosophy and everything in biology is explained with
the assumption that evolution is true. And evolution is then supported
by using the ideas that were explained by evolution. [1]
I think we could teach every aspect of high school biology in the
curriculum without mentioning evolution and have our students know the
same concepts as we do now with evolution (of course, with the
exception of evolution, itself). If that's true (it may not be), then
why is evolution a fundamental principle?