Does gravity care if you think you can fly?

Question

Same with evolution, it doesn't care if you reject the notion that you are descended from pond scum. I am tired of fundies answering evolution questions with "I did not come from monkeys" or some other such baseless refusal of a perfectly valid scientific theory.

Vince, you are confusing abiogenesis and evolution. They are separate concepts and separate scintific questions. It is simple as the origin of speices vs. the origin of life.

whynotaskdon - huh? not one biologist claims that the first organisms were gendered.

OK, some of you people are really dumb. If you want to debate abiogenesis, start your own quetion. Proof or disproof of abiogeneiss is of no relevance to the question of evolution.

Answer 1

Gravity doesn't care, and apparently, neither does my psychiatrist.


Edit - pepsiolic... boy, you hit the nail on the head with that one. The great thing about science is, we'll adjust as new information comes along. What people fail to realize, unfortunately, is that religion was disproved a lot longer than 100 years ago... Why do you still believe it?

Answer 2

Does God care if you think that you are descended from pond scum? (Well, the answer is yes, i suppose.) There is nothing valid about Darwinism. You have no more proof that Evolution exists than I do that God does. It's impossible for life to have created itself. In the 50's there was some experiment that created amino acids by running electricity through a hydrogen rich atmosphere, but
1, most scientists agree that the atmosphere on early earth was more likely to have been made of nitrogen, (I may have the elements flipped, or even wrong altogether.) The same experiment run in a nitrogen-rich environment produces formaldehyde, which destroys life.

2. If I buy a lego set, I can't expect itself to assemble itself. Even if you have all the materials necessary to create life, they can't assemble themselves without some kind of outside force. If you take a cell and you puncture it and you let all the contents spill out, you now have all the building blocks for life, but the life is gone, and will never come back.

Answer 3

Gravity is a law of science, not a rational being. Therefore, it does not think, it just is, so I has not the ability to care, or consider what happens to an object under its influence.

Evolution is very accepted theory, in that the majority of rational thinkers accept that it is the most realistic model thus considered. A few irrational fools, and superstitious idiots, will always Deny what is in the mirror, but who cares...

Diversity requires sex, and mutation. So in order for us to move up the ladder, the gene pool kicks out a few idiots, its part of the plan, and they breed with themselves and eventually die off anyway.

Answer 4

I really don't understand what their problem is with evolution. Assuming it's true, we have a very real connection with *all* living things on this planet. What the hell's wrong with that? They can choose any animal they want to, and somewhere, way back, know that we shared a common ancestor. Other primates are just a bit closer relative.

Answer 5

You make a valid point but there is a hole in your logic. Gravity is a Scientific Law, not a theory. It is measured and repeatable in a lab in given circumstances. Evolution is a Scientific theory as no form of lab work can recreate life as we know it, building blocks yes, life no.

If the theory is correct, which is something I wont argue for one side or another cause I am not graced with the knowledge to do it just, then yes it does apply to you even if you don't believe it.

Answer 6

Flies are so stupid, they fly right into a room by a window, and once you swat at them they frantically attempt to get out, yet won't be in a position to hit upon the window from which they simply entered! and don't they have a number of eyes? it may flap, and the flapping could help its propulsion, . . . perchance ?

Answer 7

Very true, especially since we did not come from monkeys, we merely share a common ancestor.
As far as these religious followers are concerned they can waste their time and believe what they want, it's when they start becoming fanatics and block my constitutional rights and blow up things and try to "Save my 'soul' " that I get pissed off.
Live and let die, I say.

Answer 8

But will the scientific theory still be valid 100 years from now?

Answer 9

Gravity doesn't really care about much. He's a right miserable sod. We went to the pub the other day and he just sat in the corner!

Miserble swine...

Answer 10

Yeah, and the biggest joke is when people try to say that scientists are actually arguing about this. They're not.