To: highball
Your language is neither necessary nor persuasive. You may complain all you want, but you cannot change the facts.
Evolution is not in any way comparable to creationism. That's just nonsense. One is scientific, the other is religion. Each has its place, but religion's is not in a science class.
Evolution is a theory, not a fact. You provide a perfect example of why I complain. Within a couple of posts, you have already proclaimed evolution to be fact. The fact remains that evolution, as it relates to, man's ascendence from animal, CANNOT BE PROVEN. There are no convincing fossil records that say otherwise. All you have is a pigs tooth, an elderly person with bone disease, and need I provide more examples. Let my children here both sides of the debate if neither can be proven.
To: smokeman
an elderly person with bone disease Actually, it was an elderly Neanderthal with a bone disease. Since then, there have been plenty of fossils of healthy Neanderthals.
154 posted on
08/04/2005 3:16:44 PM PDT by
Modernman
("A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy." -Disraeli)
To: smokeman
Once again, you're being misleading about the meaning of the word "theory."
Once might have been ignorance, now it's just deliberately perpetuating a falsehood.
184 posted on
08/04/2005 4:12:50 PM PDT by
highball
("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
To: smokeman
Evolution is a theory, not a fact. You are possibly new to the crevo threads. This has been explained before - more than twice. Briefly there are facts which indicate that species are related, that some of them are descended from earlier species.
This facts that give this pattern of interrelation are sometimes called "evolution".
The "Theory of Evolution" is an attempt to explain how this happened by naturalistic means.
It may be right, but then so may be the conjecture that "Sparky the Omnipotent Wonder Yak just created it this way, and any facts that lead to any other explanatition is just Sparky messing with our minds" - but that isn't a scientific theory.
To: smokeman
Let my children here both sides of the debate if neither can be proven.Do you desire this on all issues, or just when the theory of evolution is involved?
232 posted on
08/04/2005 5:42:20 PM PDT by
bobhoskins
(No harm meant ...)
To: smokeman
Do you know what a theory is? Please explain what it is.
446 posted on
08/05/2005 8:17:54 AM PDT by
stremba
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