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To: Westbrook

>> Evolutionism is a religion.

It’s an unproven theory portrayed as fact.


31 posted on 10/21/2010 12:11:47 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Your Hope has been redistributed. Here's your Change.)
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To: Gene Eric

Actually, every theory is unproven. The problem with Evolution proponents is they are not staying true to the scientific method. If the theory is that humans evolved from apes, then scientists should look for 1 example of it being false.

It is impossible to test every example with every variable, which is why scientists dont set out to prove a theory. If we find 1 example of a human not evolving from apes, then the theory will be disproved.


43 posted on 10/21/2010 10:40:44 AM PDT by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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To: Gene Eric
Gene Eric: Evolution is "an unproven theory portrayed as fact."

Scientifically speaking, "theories" are not "proven."
A hypothesis can be scientifically disproved, in which case it remains a disproved hypothesis, not a theory.

A "theory" can be partially or wholly confirmed, in which case it is a "confirmed theory."
Evolution is partially confirmed.
Some of it may never be confirmed, since how do you replicate billions of years of cellular evolution inside a test tube?

A "fact" is simply a confirmed observation -- fossils in geological strata are facts.
DNA is a fact.

Scientifically speaking: evolution never was, is not, never will be "a fact."
It's a theory, a partially confirmed theory, but confirmed by so many facts that no serious scientist doubts it.

77 posted on 10/23/2010 5:27:56 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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