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To: elephantlips
To see what? It’s still a “theory” and will remain ever so. If this evidence you site were all that convincing it would be scientific fact which it most decidedly isn’t! So, while Darwinists want Christians to get off their high horses about an unprovable God. (Their words) Darwinists should get off their high horse about an unprovable theory.

Your use of the terms "prove," scientific fact," and "theory" are incorrect. Scientists do not use them in the manner you are suggesting.

I have a long list of definitions on my FR homepage, but in brief:

No theory is ever proved in science, so calling the theory of evolution an "unproved theory" says more about your understanding of science than about the theory of evolution.

"Scientific facts" are explained by theories. Science works with both facts and theories. Facts by themselves lack context and meaning; a usable theory helps to explain those facts. A good theory explains existing and newly discovered facts, and also allows predictions to be made. The theory of evolution is one of the best supported theories in science.

80 posted on 08/31/2007 1:15:57 PM PDT by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: Coyoteman

“Facts by themselves lack context and meaning; a usable theory helps to explain those facts. A good theory explains existing and newly discovered facts, and also allows predictions to be made. The theory of evolution is one of the best supported theories in science.”

Hence the issue that many have with Evolution; the predicated bias displayed when facts or data points having no context of their own are strung together like strings of pearls and presented as the NEW TRUTH of EVOLUTION, whose very existence challenges even the notion of divine origin.
It is one thing to look at evidence and say that it appears that an evolutionary process took place; it is quite another to then make a leap and say because this process has taken place, this proves there is no God!

Now I’m not saying you have made that leap, but there are scores of respected Darwinists who do make that leap who go on to champion political and social views that make Communists and Nazi’s look like pious churchmen!

Those are the folks I take issue with! I have no real issues with those who view life in all its interesting varieties in a evolutionary context while being careful not to rule out (or RULE IN) a divine role in the origin of total existence! Let the true scientists practice true science not bigoted anti religion with a Darwinian justified
piety!


90 posted on 09/01/2007 10:46:50 AM PDT by mdmathis6
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