Evolution as a plot device

In a blatant attempt to generate controversy, and thus drive droves of readers to this blog, I'm going to examine evolution as if it were a plot device.

Many exotic 'technologies' in sf exist only because the demands of narrative require them. Examples of this include faster than light (FTL) travel. Without this technology the universe of sf would be a dreary place indeed, and readers would quickly become bored. Who wants to go on a trip lasting centuries, just to get to a star with no habitable stars? Sf is supposed to be the genre where the impossible is possible after all.
- Other plot devices include; telepathy, the time machine; doorways through space; life in the future; human acting and appearing robots, aliens, transporter beams, universal translating machines...

- We can see the theory of evolution as one of these plot devices that the demands of a popular Sf requires. Without alien civilizations gushing up all over the universe, (like geyers in Yellowstone park) the universe would be a dreary place for readers. The fact evolution [M2M] is impossible doesn't rule it out from being used, anymore than it rules out FTL. The sf genre needs it. So this means that pop culture will continue to have alien life forms gushing up all over, as if it were a mere banality to have life emerge from non-life, as if it were a trivial fact of chemistry to have rocks turn into Einsteins.

- We can conclude from this that Evolution will be the ruling worldview in our society until the Sf genre runs out of gas and becomes unpopular. (If it ever does. I don't want to upset people by suggesting this is going to happen.) The entertainment industry is big business, and the industry lobby will see to it that Evolution is taught in government schools for the foreseeable future.

- I'm being facetious of course. It's not Sf that needs Evolution, but the worldview known as Materialism. If some form of creation is the correct explanation for the origin (source) of the various life forms on earth, we have to consider evolution as an Sf story... probably the greatest one of all time.

Notes;
1. What do you mean I can't be serious? Our professors do call religions stories don't they? And Evolution does function as a story doesn't it?
2. As usual, M2M = molecules to man evolution. (I've failed spectacularly in my attempt to have this accronym adopted.)