The overwhelming evidence that Evolution has occurred can be ignored because we don't know the ultimate origins of life. True or false? [Spirituality & Religion]

@MistyCee [b][i][u]PRECISELY!![/u][/i][/b]

In the end, EVERYTHING boils down to a matter of faith.

@MistyCee [quote]sometimes you just have to believe in one thing or another[/quote]

Why?

Shouldn't evidence, or perhaps lack thereof, play at least [i]some[/i] role?

@newjaninev2 Some role, sure, but at some point, there's always a leap of faith, and its usually a matter of how big of one you are willing to take.

@newjaninev2 Sure. Problem is, how are you gonna experiment in such a way as to replicate evolution? The closest you'll get is with micro organisms, but even then you're not likely to observe genomic shift in your lifetime. The best you can do is infer.

@MistyCee [quote]there's always a leap of faith
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Again, why?

If the evidence is insufficient, then it's always prudent to simply withhold making a conclusion, and to continue gathering facts until a conclusion can be reached.

Faith is merely pretending to know what one does not, in fact, know.
Religion applauds such pretence, whereas it has no place in reasoned and rational inquiry.

@Theseus Dude, I already posted a link to a page detailing macroscopic evolutionary experiments.

@newjaninev2 Forgetting, conveniently, that many of the pioneers of science were members of the Christian, etc. Clergy or were, at the very least, theists. 😊

@Theseus Not all sciences are replicative (it's extraordinarily difficult for cosmologists to replicate universes). That's more than compensated for by the use of hypotheses... if the Theory is correct, then this is what we should see.

Evolution is change in the frequency and distribution of alleles within population. That's the [i]process[/i], and it's driven, in large part, by Natural Selection... that's the main [i]mechanism[/i].

It's easy enough to see this happening... mosquito populations in the London underground rail system is an example I recently came across (a rather fascinating example, actuallY)

@newjaninev2 Where can I read about these mosquitoes?

@OggggO If I have a chance later this morning I'll see what I can find for you

@newjaninev2 Can you get by purely on deductive reasoning?

If you, at some point, have to resort to inductive reasoning, you're making some sort of educated guess.

@OggggO This should help...

https://www.nature.com/articles/6884120

@OggggO Where is this link? I don't see it in the thread.

@Theseus Somewhere in one of the longass reply chains on this post. Here’s another copy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_evolution

@OggggO Thanks! 10-4 about the threading! Just damn!