For those of y'all who reject evolution, i suspect that often you're not very familiar with it. But i could be wrong. So my question is: [Spirituality & Religion]
Can you share with me your genuine understanding of what is meant by evolution and how it works? Don't look it up, just tell me what your understanding of the theory is.
Not interested in folks who accept evolution. Although i [i]hope [/i]you have a decent grasp of the theory as well or you're no better off than evolution-denying creationists.
All this does is demonstrate your desperate need to antagonise people that believe something that you don't believe in. The whole point of religion is that the followers have faith. The followers of science simply accept the facts as presented and even when the facts turn out to be wrong.
@Johnblackthorn [quote]nothing more than a theory[/quote]
Sharon has suggested that you do not well understand the nature of a scientific Theory, and your post seems to confirm her observation, so perhaps this will help.
Science starts with observation. We look at the world, and we notice things. Many of these things seem to be related, and so we try to come up with an explanation as to how they’re related. This explanation is called a Theory… we can think of these as ‘Big T’ Theories, because t[i]hey are based on demonstrable evidence and they have wide explanatory power.[/i] Scientists then test the Theory in order to prove that it is [b]wrong[/b]. This is an important point, and it seems to constantly confuse non-scientists. Science doesn’t try to prove that a Theory is correct. Science tries to prove that the Theory is wrong, and the Theory is accepted only so long as we are unable to show that it is wrong.
Contrast this with our everyday ‘theories’ (my neighbour is probably cheating on her taxes… my friend is having an affair), which are simply vague hunches or convenient fictions - we can think of those as small-t theories. Usually we go looking for evidence to support these ‘theories’, and it is common for us to ignore evidence that contradicts them. It seems to me that it's these vague hunches or convenient fictions that people have in mind when they say that evolution is ‘just a theory’.
Some people claim that the Theory of Evolution is not a real theory because ‘it cannot be falsified’. This is a nonsense. So, what would falsify the Theory of Evolution? Well, if we opened up a stratum of the Earth’s crust that was laid down, say, 100 million years ago and found there the fossilised remains of a modern-day giraffe, then the Theory of Evolution would have a fatal problem. The same would apply if we found fossils out of place in the Earth’s strata. Every single fossil puts the Theory of Evolution at risk, and yet, despite the hundreds of millions of fossils on the record, the Theory still stands. We never see a ‘modern’ rabbit (as an example) suddenly appearing in fossils formed, say, 60 million years ago. The Theory of Evolution is drawn from the evidence… and the evidence we continue to gather consistently fails to falsify it... but we continue to look.
[quote]evolution will never be provable to a scientific level, it will always be guesswork and nothing more ... it is now and never will be nothing more than a theory [/quote]
...not for nothing my dude...but you appear to be exactly the sort of person this thread was made for.
I know you came into this thread already swinging but take a breath and consider answering the original question and maybe we can go on from there.
