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To: mewzilla

Boy howdy I can’t hang with that theory. Not for a microsecond.

I do appreciate the forthright explanation of it, however.


102 posted on 09/14/2022 5:48:16 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey; mewzilla
one guy in new jersey: "Boy howdy I can’t hang with that theory. Not for a microsecond."

Evolution is a confirmed scientific theory, so nobody is required to "hang with that", not for a microsecond.

In strict scientific language, scientific theories are not "proved" and nobody "believes in" or has "faith" in them.
Instead, a falsifiable hypothesis can be tested and if the test fails to falsify it -- in other words, if the theory correctly predicts test results -- then scientists can consider the hypothesis a confirmed theory.

Very rarely can a theory be confirmed as observed fact, but one example is: the Earth is sphere shaped.
For many centuries that hypothesis had been mathematically calculated, and then confirmed as theory by explorers who circumnavigated the globe.
Finally, in the 20th century the Earth was photographed from space and theory became observed fact.

But that's unusual, most theories, for example gravity, cannot be observed and so remain as theories, regardless of how many times theory is confirmed.

Evolution is another such scientific theory, but here is a fact: as a result of explorations and tests over the past two centuries evolution related theories have changed a lot, but the basic ideas have never been falsified -- evolution results from 1) descent with modifications and 2) natural selection.

Both 1) & 2) are observed facts and evolution is a theory to explain them.

104 posted on 09/14/2022 6:28:32 AM PDT by BroJoeK (future DDG 134 -- we remember)
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