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I realize you're trying to be cute (or perhaps sarcastic). But you're missing the entire point of science. The biggest enemy of good science is *dogma* ... unquestioning acceptance of any belief. That means *any* dogma.

Einstein would never have gotten anywhere if he had held to Newtonian physics as dogma ... sided with the belief that "Isaac Newton is its prophet." And modern quantum physics would be nowhere if people held Albert Einstein up as the prophet of the new dogma of relativity.

Science is always contingent. Always, always, always contingent. It depends on the state of the evidence. It depends on the best theory that someone can come up with. It can fall with a single piece of evidence. It can fall with a better theory (a simpler theory) that explains the same evidence. If you believe (as I do) that evolution is the best explanation for the available evidence ... then you had better know *why*. Otherwise you are just being a dogmatist, and you might as well go look up your answers in Genesis as in Origin of Species.

You are also making the same mistake that creationists do of over-stressing the importance of Darwin. He did not invent the concept of evolution. This was a concept around since the Greeks. Darwin just provided a key piece of the puzzle ... the *mechanism* by which evolution seems to work. And if Darwin had not lived, there were three or four people who would have proposed an almost identical theory. It would have been impossible NOT to arrive at the same conclusions once the mechanisms of genetics were discovered, to say nothing of the discovery of DNA.

So, sorry about the lecture ... I know you're being cute ... but I wish you would stop. It's not helping the discussion at all. And it is terribly *un*-scientific.

2006-12-24 04:04:47 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 0 0

Darwinism, as opposed to Lamarckism is more a causo-mechanical explanation of the origin of species. It has flaws, but the works of Mendel, Hugo deVries, Haldane, J. Huxley, and Stebbins proved that Darwin was right. The fact that Darwin’s theory forced us to recognize that our relatives were dangling from the family tree may be difficult to swallow. Einstein's theory of relativity, showed that clocks and human bodies are moving with respect to each other measure time at different rates. These thoughts and concepts strike at our deepest chord of understanding of physical experience. Now that we have developed the ability to decode and manipulate our genetic instructions, this raises questions about personal identity, about the line between living things and mechanistic machines, and about freedom of action in relation to predetermined behavior.

2006-12-23 22:01:55 · answer #2 · answered by Ishan26 7 · 1 0

That's demeaning. No true scientist believes that the theory of evolution as Darwin once proposed it is any more correct than the Quantum theory of physics as Bohr once proposed it.

The idea of science is to constantly rework a theory until it fits all observations. Evolution, like all other disciplines that represent "best approximation" science, constantly changes as new research is undertaken, and more problems proposed.

I guess we're looking at a case of the "evolutionist" vs. the "scientist". Scientists are skeptical at all costs, constantly reworking theories, whereas evolutionists spend all of their time arguing with creationists... such a waste, really.

2006-12-23 21:07:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

This is just foolishness.
The scientific theory of evolution has been updated and modified many times since Darwin. This is true of any scientific theory.

Evolution, and science in general, is not a religion. It is based on evidence and observation. There is a lot of evidence to support evolution. It has been called one of the most well documented theories in all of science.

2006-12-25 18:03:45 · answer #4 · answered by RjKardo 3 · 0 0

This isn't a question.
Evolution is not a religion. Darwin is one of its proponents, with his theory of natural selection. If you don't care for Darwin, there have been thousands of scientists worldwide who have worked on natural selection before, during and after his lifetime.
Evolution is logical, and the only way is can be refuted is if people ignore all the evidence.

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2006-12-23 23:02:59 · answer #5 · answered by Labsci 7 · 2 0

He became the 1st to state that something living has a tendency to evolve however organic selection. It ability this: as an occasion, shall we are saying we've ninety 9 customary fowl. one in each of them provides delivery to an egg which by ability of mistake produces a blue fowl (and who, shall we are saying, is super proof against chilly). So ninety 9% of the fowl are prevalent and a million% is blue-chilly resistant. If for some reason that wintry climate abruptly is very chilly, lots of the customary fowl will die, however the blue one will actually stay to tell the story and function different blue fowl. So prevalent fowl improve into much less and much less and blue fowl improve into further and added. that's observed as organic selection. sometime, all prevalent fowl will vanish and the blue ones will stay, and then we are saying that the creature "developed" into some thing extra suitable. that's the character's thank you to repair itself. Darwin of direction did no longer think of of that assertion by ability of observing blue chickens. He emphasised on examining the features of each species and how the tended to selection in accordance to the standards of their habitats.

2016-12-11 15:12:11 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Well, of course, he is, 'Evolution'!

You are one of the very few evolutionists who has been completely honest enough to finally admit that "evolution" today, is really worshipped as a religion - thus exposing it for the counterfeit replacement for more formalized religion that it really is.
Nevertheless, evolutionists ignore all the evidence brought against it, and also defend it with such religious fervour that it can obviously be nothing short of a religion in their lives.
Many of them virtually worship it!

So, Yes; you are right, and I am thankful you have admitted that your 'prophet' is Charles Darwin!
Thank you; I wish there were more so honest among you.

2006-12-23 20:54:40 · answer #7 · answered by dr c 4 · 0 2

Hy friend! You are absolutely right. I respect your pro-scientific faith. Keep it up! May Darwin bless you.

2006-12-23 21:15:14 · answer #8 · answered by Live & Let Live! 1 · 0 1

It's the silly season.

2006-12-23 20:43:16 · answer #9 · answered by iansand 7 · 0 0

It must be nice in your world.

2006-12-31 08:11:56 · answer #10 · answered by AL B SURE 1 · 0 0

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