[Obie Wan]

Oh I can prove gravity to you real quick,my question is can you prove evolution to me !!!

[chickadee]

Exactly my point.

The Theory of Evolution has many flaws, but the scientific community is unwilling to allow the consideration of other ideas. And I am not including creationism in this criticism, just alternative scientific theory.

[razzle]

“can you prove evolution to me”

Of course they can not. darwinism is a feeling and has nothing to do with any scientific fact.

[qam1]

Oh I can prove gravity to you real quick,my question is can you prove evolution to me !!!

Sure, just take a five year old flu shot or use the same exact pesticide year after year and see how far that gets you

[Kevmo]

Scientific “laws” like the Newtonian Laws of physics are just another word for “Observations”. Theories are constructs that are floated to explain laws. So can you “Prove” the theory of gravity? Can you even point to one theory of gravity that is widely or universally accepted? We all know about the law/observation of gravity, but can you prove the THEORY of gravity. If you can, you’ll get a Nobel prize, because no one else can. Do you “believe” in this amazing theory of gravity that you have so much confidence in?

[Centurion2000]

Oh I can prove gravity to you real quick,my question is can you prove evolution to me !!!

For short term proof of evolution look to microbiology. Where was XDR-TB 50 years ago ... guess what? It didn't exist.

XDR-TB Extreme drug resistant tuberculosis ... it's a bacterium.

[Centurion2000]

can you prove evolution to me !!!

First, you should use question marks for questions .... but so much for the grammar police statement.

Here's another thought on evolution

Nylon : Invented : 1930's .... roughly

In 1975 a team of Japanese scientists discovered a strain of Flavobacterium living in ponds containing waste water from a factory producing nylon that was capable of digesting certain byproducts of nylon-6 manufacture, such as, 6-aminohexanoate linear dimer, even though those byproducts had not existed prior to the invention of nylon in 1935. Further study revealed that the three enzymes the bacteria were using to digest the byproducts were novel, significantly different than any other enzymes produced by other Flavobacterium strains (or any other bacteria for that matter), and not effective on any other material other than the man made nylon byproducts. [1] This strain of Flavobacterium, Sp. K172, became popularly known as nylon eating bacteria, and the enzymes were collectively known as nylonase.

Nylonase

[gondramB]

>>Oh I can prove gravity to you real quick,my question is can you prove evolution to me !!!<<

You can prove gravity?

Just to be clear, you are talking about the theory of universal attraction, with the classic formula




So how would you prove universal attraction? And how this gravity thing get from one place to another? Is it particles? Is it waves? How fast does it travel? How do you know it always works? It sounds like Gravity is just a theory and an incomplete one at that. And since you can't prove it, its not real, right? Seriously, there can be all kinds of details about a theory that need to be worked out after its clear that it works in general in our local area. Sometimes new conditions will be observed that make changes (as happened with gravity after 1905) but even then the new theory still has to explain the old conditions too. The basic principle of evolution, that life evolved on earth from the simple to the complex looks pretty darn secure.