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To: Ricanator
Any theory of how the world was created is doomed to remain a theory since it is scientifically unprovable.

We cannot go back into time and see how the world was created. But scientific theories make predictions that can be verified. For example, the theory of evolution includes the observation that all life has descended from a common ancestor. This was clear to Charles Darwin and his contemporaries, who reached this conclusion by studying the anatomy of living things. Now if life really did descend from a common ancestor, when the technology to sequence genes became available, it would be expected that the genetic information would confirm the family trees inferred from older studies of anatomy. This is precisely what happened: species understood to be more closely related usually happen to have more similarities in their genes -- down to inconsequential "spelling errors" in the genes. This, therefore, is a prediction by the theory, which was then verified.

Personally, I have no problem believing in a God who created life using evolution: we have a world with life that is resilient and adaptable, which has sculpted itself into the myriad beautiful forms we see today.

23 posted on 11/12/2004 6:24:23 AM PST by megatherium
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To: megatherium

>>We cannot go back into time and see how the world was created. But scientific theories make predictions that can be verified. For example, the theory of evolution includes the observation that all life has descended from a common ancestor.<<

Yikes! That is not correct. It is an interpretation based on what is observed, not what is actually observed.

And here lies the root falacy of religious evolutionists.

When a kid takes a lego set and sets off to make toy insects, dogs, firemen and jet planes, they may "appear" to all have a common ancestor since they are all made of legos. But the only things they have in common is that the building material was the same and the designer was the same.

All living things were designed to live withing this particular ecosystem.


140 posted on 11/12/2004 12:13:19 PM PST by RobRoy (Science is about "how." Christianity is about "why.")
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