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To: Verbosus

There is a popular misunderstanding about what a scientific theory represents. For scientists a theory is an hypothesis that can be falsified by experimental observation and induction and has not been so falsified. Until the scientists who have expressed their dissent with the process of natural selection have published evidence of some biological complexification that can only be sufficiently explained by supernatural forces then their dissent is merely their biased opinion. Natural selection and complexification is routinely demonstrated in molecular biology labs every day and is not really very controversial anymore. They are entitled to believe whatever they want but they can’t pretend its scientific without a falsifiable hypothesis and peer reviewed data that validates that belief.


9 posted on 03/11/2019 3:24:02 PM PDT by Dave Wright
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To: Dave Wright
I think what you're calling "natural selection" should come under the heading of micro-evolution or persistent phenotypical expression.

No primates, apes, simians, hominoids, or neanderthals have ever been shown to have been an ancestor to homo sapiens sapiens.

Perhaps you have a unique explanation how prokaryotes made the jump to eukaryotes.

17 posted on 03/11/2019 3:56:21 PM PDT by rx (Truth Will Out!)
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To: Dave Wright

There is no way to test one species or organism turning into another


19 posted on 03/11/2019 4:15:18 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Dave Wright

Bingo. Well put.


24 posted on 03/11/2019 4:50:04 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Dave Wright; Verbosus; Sopater; Vaquero
Dave Wright: "There is a popular misunderstanding about what a scientific theory represents..."

Your post is an excellent summary and defense of science.
A good place to start any discussion of evolution theory.

102 posted on 03/13/2019 6:04:19 AM PDT by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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