I don't get it. Evolution - or evolutionary biology to be more precise - is a scientific discipline, nothing more. It has no churches, no priests and no rituals. It offers no guarantee of salvation or damnation, no eternal life and no moral code.
To me evolutionary biology is a field of science that examines the biological development and origin of species. It seeks to explain what will happen at a genetic level and provide a framework that explains where we and other organisms came from - who our ancestors were, what animals we share elements of DNA with. It does not seek to set itself up as an explanation for creation as that's more the field of abiogenesis.
It's no more different than, say, practical physics or mathematics or organic chemistry in that it seeks to provide a framework of fact based evidence that can then be applied to predict what will happen in certain circumstances. Yet we don't, for example, say that maths or physics are religions.
Enlighten me. Please.
2007-03-30
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