According to the theory of gravity, an object launched from a particular position at a particular velocity would be able to orbit around the planet Mercury. Is it the job of proponents of the theory of gravity to launch such a probe to verify that the theory works in this particular instance, or are they permitted to generalize from the mountains of evidence which suggests that gravity works the way they think it does?
#####According to the theory of gravity, an object launched from a particular position at a particular velocity would be able to orbit around the planet Mercury. Is it the job of proponents of the theory of gravity to launch such a probe to verify that the theory works in this particular instance, or are they permitted to generalize from the mountains of evidence which suggests that gravity works the way they think it does?#####
Sure, but there are in fact MOUNTAINS of evidence about how gravity works. It's not an unobserved phenomenon.
If we observed, let's say, rabbits evolving into cattle, it wouldn't be that unreasonable to suggest that maybe cattle could evolve into elephants. But we've never observed such a thing and there's no indication that such a thing ever occurred. There's no reason to believe any creature on earth ever evolved from any other creature. That's why evolutionists continue to be astonished when polls show strong support for creationism. It isn't that people are stupid or stubborn, or brainwashed by faith, as the secularists would have us believe. It's just that people don't swallow a theory that stretches logic and credulity. If you or I were able to trace our ancestry back to the very beginning, would we find a single celled organism? Perhaps you think so, but I don't.
I simply don't think it's possible that accumulated random mutations led to the millions of species on earth. Particularly given the known facts of extinction. How much faster would evolution have to occur than extinction to arrive at the millions and millions of species that now exist?
I don't object to evolution being offered up as a theory. I question the degree of certainty with which it's put forward and the tendency to disqualify competing theories.
Ultimately, the only solution for conservatives may be to simply homeschool or send our kids to private schools, because the socialist left will never let evolution become disestablished from the government school curriculum. And let's face it, evolution **IS** the socialist left's pet theory of how we as humans got to where we are. It didn't start out that way. But the left fell in love with the theory and it was they who enshrined it. Not natural selection, but evolution.