To: Michael_Michaelangelo
I think so many of the textbooks make it appear that evolution is a scientific fact and its not, said Graves, R-Oklahoma City. Even the U.S. Supreme Court says its a theory, so I was just trying to make that clear. The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution.
Darwinian natural selection is the THEORY of how the fact of evolution came about.
Confusingly, the fact and theory are both called "evolution".
Almost all of the people who are against the teaching of evolution object much more strongly to the fact of evolution than they do to the theory, because it's the fact that contradicts most creation myths. Because of the confusion between terms, they think that by finding flaws in the theory, they can overturn the fact. But they can't.
7 posted on
02/27/2004 12:25:04 PM PST by
Physicist
To: Physicist
The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution.You can do better than that, can't you? Showing me various species of extinct plants and animals that happen to look similar to each other is a fact that they existed NOT that they evolved.
8 posted on
02/27/2004 12:29:39 PM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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9 posted on
02/27/2004 12:32:58 PM PST by
PatrickHenry
(A compassionate evolutionist.)
To: Physicist
LOL!
Will "natrual selection" ever kick in? If it has, then why are you here? Surely YOU would have been weeded out.
59 posted on
02/27/2004 1:53:11 PM PST by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Physicist
The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution. Darwinian natural selection is the THEORY of how the fact of evolution came about. Confusingly, the fact and theory are both called "evolution". Almost all of the people who are against the teaching of evolution object much more strongly to the fact of evolution than they do to the theory, because it's the fact that contradicts most creation myths. Because of the confusion between terms, they think that by finding flaws in the theory, they can overturn the fact. But they can't. Well said.
To: Physicist
The sequential variation of flora and fauna throughout the fossil record is the scientific FACT of evolution. The big flood killed off a lot of plants and dinosaurs but that fact is what is recorded in the "fossil record".
292 posted on
03/01/2004 9:35:22 AM PST by
biblewonk
(I must try to answer all bible questions.)
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