[donh]

As far as using lack of gravity between galaxies as an argument for accepting lack of evidence for evolution is a big leap, I could just as well used that analogy of proof of GOD, we can all make that little leap can't we?

Sure. The question is, can I get a doubter to buy it? If you ask that question about the theory of gravity, you can do the calculations for another set of bodies in the heavens you've never looked at, and see if your predictions hold true. Can you predict when the next really outrageous example of God's intervention will occur in similarly metrically predictable manner?

We believe in gravity with high confidence because of these inductive demonstrations. We have not proved the theory of gravity--we just believe it with a high degree of critically verifiable confidence. Same reason we believe in evolutionary theory with a great deal of confidence. We keep predicting the general nature of what we will find if we keep diging, and we keep finding things where we predict we'll find them in greater abundance than we find them where we don't predict we'll find them. That is the basis of graduate educations in paleontology.

[snowballinhell]

Same reason we believe in evolutionary theory with a great deal of confidence. We keep predicting the general nature of what we will find if we keep diging, and we keep finding things where we predict we'll find them in greater abundance than we find them where we don't predict we'll find them. That is the basis of graduate educations in paleontology.
Now would that be the changes between species we are not finding that gives you "a great deal of confidence" or is it the actual lack of finding them that gives "great deal of confidence" What we seem to find as we keep digging is that what we thought before, was wrong and here is a new theory to fill the holes of the old one. Well I say keep digging!