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To: jdsteel
Please continue my education. The law of evolution would be.....?

What's the inistance on law?

We can't predict when and where hurricanes will be formed.
There's no Law of Hurricanes. But we have a theory of hurricane formation (And it's not "Rain God angry")

151 posted on 12/20/2005 5:35:13 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about - J S Mill)
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To: Oztrich Boy
(I said)Please continue my education. The law of evolution would be.....?

(You said) What's the inistance on law? We can't predict when and where hurricanes will be formed. There's no Law of Hurricanes. But we have a theory of hurricane formation (And it's not "Rain God angry")

Let me state my position a little differently. Science is filled with areas where we don't have an answer for questions. Saying "we just don't know" should be perfectly fine. We have the "law of gravity" which is a currently accepted, empirically proven cause and effect. The theory of gravity has many unknowns in it. No scientist or student should feel bad about admitting that we don't know certain things about how gravity works. So WHY is it so important to some people to avoid the things we don't know about how evolution works, and the many (quite large) gaps in the scientific theory of evolution. It is honest and correct to admit we don't have any empirical or ongoing evidence of non-life changing to life, of creatures evolving to a completely different species, etc. Evolution is still happening, so we should be able to see and prove creatures changing genus and species right now, under our current "theory of evolution". It's intellectually honest to admit when we JUST DON'T KNOW. Unless, of course, your religion of "evolutionism" does not permit you to do so.

194 posted on 12/22/2005 8:25:12 AM PST by jdsteel (I need a new tag line!!!)
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