Posted on 01/13/2006 8:24:51 PM PST by WatchYourself
How can someone observe, study or experiment on evolution? Evolution is the process of something moving from one stage of development to another. What do we really have to scientifically prove evolution?
A scientist might have a fossil, but we can only speculate as to the age and appearance of the animal creating that fossil. No one has ever witnessed evolution of life, no one here now was there to observe, study and experiment. Like it or not, we can only form theories and beliefs about what might have been. As sound as these theories might be, they are and will always be theories. Evolution is simply a system of belief based on what we think might have happened. Those who believe in evolution have faith in the scientist’s abilities to speculate and imagine what might have been. This is not science. This is faith.
It is time we removed the phony and inaccurate label of ‘science’ from evolution and see it for what it really is - a religion, based on faith and a system of belief. If public schools are not allowed to teach religion, then the theories of evolution have no place in a public school classroom. If they are allowed to teach theories based on faith, like evolution, then creationism should be taught also.
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If you are going to play science, you need to use the terminology precisely
It's
An evolution of an animal from one kind to another kind (e.g. turtle to bird)Transition of species
is observed. "But they're both still lizards" < /Creationist rejoinder>
Amen
The author immediately commits the first error: Lie about science and evolution. This is the typical style of argument creationists/ID proponents use. Often called the "straw man" approach, they create and state falsehoods about evolution, and then procede to attack those falsehoods as if by doing so they are rendering mortal blows to their enemy: Scientific Inquiry.
It's a choice, folks: Blind Faith uber alles, or native curiosity and scientific inquiry.
Mutations are most likely caused by factors other than what you have mentioned. I do bones, not genetics. The genetics folks can fill you in better on the actual causes than I can.
Selection does include the factors you mentioned. Lack of food probably favors the smaller bodies, while predators favor speed, climbing ability, tool use, and a variety of other abilities (not all in the same critter).
Climate also favors certain traits; dark skin is better suited to the tropics, light skin to northern latitudes. But don't forget vitamin D production, which has to balance the skin color.
Hope this helps.
later read/maybe ping.
Where did the first sign of life come from? The first single cell organism? What did it evolve from? Life just started from nothing?
Can you supply evidence for ark and flood?
Not belief, but evidence? Any evidence that will stand up to scientific scrutiny?
My thoughts have already "formed"(not evolved)into congruent thought, you fail to see it because you disagree with my thoughts. Evos and IDers alike are religionists and their theories are just that:Theories. An invisible force is and invisible force, whether it is God or Evolution, therefore is subject to the same hypothesis: They are both false because they lack evidence.
The environmental conditions interact with species' abilities.
Temperature, for example, is critical to infectious bacteria, but not so much to the mammalian host.
Hydration is critical to mammals, but not so much to desert-dwelling reptiles
Cosmic waves are deleterious to mitotic cellular division, but not so much to extant cells.
External salinity is critical to a shark, but not so much to a water buffalo.
Etc. Obviously the list of putative environmental stressors is long and depends upon "vulnerability" of a given species.
Although your questions have nothing to do with the theory of evolution they do merit an answer.
I don't know.
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