First of all, I'm not going to call you names. I find the pride and the name-calling more prevalent among the creationists, so I'll leave that to them.
Second, I would like to refine your comment slightly to reflect that state of things more accurately:
You said, "no matter what the fossil record shows, it supports evolution." That's probably how it appears to someone who is dead-set against evolution as a theory. A more accurate version of your statement would be, "short of divine intervention, the only thing that could explain the wide variety that we see in the fossil record would be a process based in evolution. However, since the fossil record is sketchy, we must continue to refine this theory as new data emerges." It's an exciting pursuit, because every once in a while it does get thrown a curve, and it forces the theorists to refine their suppositions and sometimes change them. The pursuit is for a cohesive theory that will account for the variety, and to do that, we must constantly start with the premise that evolution is involved, or else all we have left is divine intervention. Who knows? Maybe God was behind all of it. It's the mechanism that's fascinating.
yea..never admit its a hypothesis..
"A hypothesis is a suggested explanation of a phenomenon or reasoned proposal suggesting a possible correlation between multiple phenomena. " A theory is a proposed description, explanation, or model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation"
"First of all, I'm not going to call you names. I find the pride and the name-calling more prevalent among the creationists, so I'll leave that to them."
OK - sorry. I've been on many threads which label folks who post and leave as having no courage, or worse. Point taken.
"You said, "no matter what the fossil record shows, it supports evolution." ... A more accurate version of your statement would be, ... "
Careful. I say what I mean. Please don't try to help me be more 'accurate'. I hit it pretty much on the head, according to your very own words, in the very same reply! :
"...we must constantly start with the premise that evolution is involved, or else all we have left is divine intervention. "