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To: Dimensio
What is the purpose of having the stickers there. Why put disclaimer stickers for the theory of evolution but not for the theory of gravity atomic theory or any other theory in science at all. Why single out evolution?

Gravity can be observed in a lab. Atoms can be observed under an electron microscope. However, you really can't observe one species evolving from another. You can, and we have, observed natural selection, but this is only a small part of the larger ToE and does not by itself lend enough substantiation to consider evolution a fact, which is how it's taught in schools.
30 posted on 12/14/2005 1:07:19 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: JamesP81
Gravity can be observed in a lab.

What is observed is the end-result of what gravitational theory attempts to explain. Similarly, the end-result of what the theory of evolution attempts to explain can also be observed in a lab.

Atoms can be observed under an electron microscope.

Again, end-result of atomic theory.

However, you really can't observe one species evolving from another.

Speciation has been observed.
31 posted on 12/14/2005 1:11:15 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: JamesP81
However, you really can't observe one species evolving from another.

Item A-10 from the Evolution Troll's Toolkit.

32 posted on 12/14/2005 1:12:46 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, common scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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To: JamesP81
Gravity can be observed in a lab.

Only the effects of gravity can be observed, not the force itself. So you're observing the "law" of gravity, but you can't observe the theory of gravity. In fact there isn't a theory of gravity, but rather multiple, and largely inconsistent theories, e.g. General Relativity (which says that gravity is a warping of space time caused by the presence of matter, but also that it is indistinguishable from the forces of acceleration) and OTOH force unification theories (which suggest gravity is a fundamental force mediated by a particle, the graviton, which has however not been discovered yet).

So given this state of affairs, where there is much less consensus and more uncertainty about gravitational theory than evolutionary theory, why does evolution need a sticker but gravity doesn't?!

36 posted on 12/14/2005 1:18:27 PM PST by Stultis (I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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To: JamesP81
"You can, and we have, observed natural selection, but this is only a small part of the larger ToE and does not by itself lend enough substantiation to consider evolution a fact, which is how it's taught in schools."

Lets see, we have observed mutation and we have observed natural selection.... which part was it that we haven't seen?
51 posted on 12/14/2005 2:03:39 PM PST by ndt
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