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To: BroJoeK

Name one piece of evidence animals have evolved to another animal.

I will admit you have far more faith than I do with your papering over holes you can fly a 747 through. No fossil record, no problem just believe.


109 posted on 12/11/2018 9:15:55 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: bray
bray: "Name one piece of evidence animals have evolved to another animal."

There is evidence all around us, and I've listed examples:

  1. Some wolves evolved into dogs.
  2. Some aurochs evolved into cattle.
  3. Some wild pigs evolved into domesticated pigs.
  4. Mouflon evolved into domestic sheep.
  5. Near Eastern wildcats evolved into domestic cats.
All of that was within human times and so provides evidence of evolution before humans were around to witness or participate in it.

But, of course that might not be enough evidence for you, bray.

bray: "I will admit you have far more faith than I do with your papering over holes you can fly a 747 through.
No fossil record, no problem just believe."

But there are literal mountains of fossil evidence, why would you claim otherwise?
As for alleged "faith" formal science doesn't use it, or "belief" or doctrine, dogma, canons, creeds, codes, etc., none of that stuff.

Strictly speaking, science is all about just two things: observations and explanations.
Falsifiable explanations are called hypotheses which make predictions that when confirmed promote the hypothesis to theory.
Every theory is only accepted tentatively, pending future falsification or better explanations.
So there's no "faith" or "belief", theories are simply accepted or rejected based on confirmed predictions.

For the past 150+ years evolution theory has been confirmed daily by thousands of workers around the globe and never seriously falsified.

So as theories go, evolution is in pretty good shape.

110 posted on 12/11/2018 11:36:54 AM PST by BroJoeK ((a little historical perspective...))
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