I feel like a total fraud when talking about the philosophical stuff, but couldn't the theory of evolution be thought of as "proof" almost or supportive of the idea of dialectics? I mean that alone makes me respect Darwin's contributions more, but I could be totally off-base here.
Nah, its a pretty solid comparison. Both processes are iterative, after each iteration new information is created/discovered which is used in the next iteration, both processes work because they accept that a thing happening right now was caused by a long series of previous actions and that the thing happening right now did not spontaneously occur.
I feel like a total fraud when talking about the philosophical stuff, but couldn't the theory of evolution be thought of as "proof" almost or supportive of the idea of dialectics? I mean that alone makes me respect Darwin's contributions more, but I could be totally off-base here.
Engels himself makes this argument, so no, I don't think you're very far off base here.
Nah, its a pretty solid comparison. Both processes are iterative, after each iteration new information is created/discovered which is used in the next iteration, both processes work because they accept that a thing happening right now was caused by a long series of previous actions and that the thing happening right now did not spontaneously occur.