"Let me try to make crystal clear what is established beyond reasonable doubt, and what needs further study, about evolution. Evolution as a process that has always gone on in the history of the earth can be doubted only by those who are ignorant of the evidence or are resistant to evidence, owing to emotional blocks or to plain bigotry. By contrast, the mechanisms that bring evolution about certainly need study and clarification. There are no alternatives to evolution as history that can withstand critical examination. Yet we are constantly learning new and important facts about evolutionary mechanisms."
http://talkorigins.org/faqs/evolution-fact.html
At least read it for understanding what a theory is in science.
2007-01-22 09:21:48 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
"A mountain of evidence is impressive.
But without proof of one species becoming another, evolution will remain just a theory"
Uhhh evidence is proof, you want evidence try:
http://talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html
Go to 5.0
2007-01-22 09:30:32 · update #1
I don't get you people, there's proof and evidence galore. Much more than an old book and faith.
2007-01-22 09:31:46 · update #2
Well, this is hardly a question, but I totally agree. I mean, a lot of things from the Bible have been disproven by science. Can't we just accept that the Bible is in fact a BOOK, written by PEOPLE at some time or another? People with ideas and viewpoints that could have been right or wrong at some time? Believe in a higher entity as you wish, but the Bible is a book. Nothing more, nothing less.
2007-01-22 09:27:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Unfortunately to this point evolution is still a theory, the next step past a theory is that of it being a law. Like the first law of thermodynamics, which is that "energy can neither be created or destroyed." That law has been proved, but a theory still has many supporting evidence pieces, but just can not be proven in total. And since we can not go back in time, due to erosion, due to fossils being extremely fragile, etc. it is almost impossible to make it more than a theory. Which does not mean that is how it happened, just lack of complete evidence due to the hundreds of millions of years that it has taken place over.
The bible and God and religion are just fantasy and have nothing to prove otherwise. It can not even be a theory since no evidence has come forth to prove it, in fact more evidence has come forth to disprove the bible, etc. Many people feel in their hearts that God exists and religion is to be followed, however a belief is not proof, or anywhere close to that. When the bible was written, they believed (including Jesus) that the earth was flat and the centre of the Universe, for example. A belief is not supported by anything more than emotion, nothing else.
So as for your answer, it is better to be a theory with some evidence to support it, than some belief with no evidence to support it except someone's emotion.
2007-01-22 09:40:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually, REAL science proves that evolution is wrong and that the Earth is young and that there was a worldwide Flood, just like the Bible says. I used to be an evolutionist and an atheist for 20 years, just like you, and I used to go online and tell creationists how stupid they were for believing what they did, just like you. The fact is that evolution is just as religious as creationism, yet here you are spouting off that you know everything because, after all, you were there "millions of years ago" to witness everything. Oh, you weren't? Then maybe your teacher or college professor was there then? No? Given that there are alternative scientific explanations for the existence of rock strata, fossils and dinosaurs, how can you possibly claim to know the "truth"? Or is it just because you've been brainwashed by a liberal-controlled school system ever since kindergarten who has forced that garbage down your throat for years - so much that you've never even questioned what you were being taught? You are just as religious and closed-minded as you claim that we are.
2007-01-22 09:45:35 · answer #3 · answered by FUNdie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, it's a theory, but in my opinion, it makes a HELL of a lot os sense... simply take a look at height standards from two hundred years ago... did you know that Louie XVI was only 4 ft 1 in tall? His wife was 4 ft, and his Delphin (the infant son heir to the throne) was 2.5 feet tall at age 5!!! Humans have become taller with the passing of time, and it's only been 200 years. How can you say evolution is NOT true when millions of years have passed? For all I know, in a past life i might have been a tadpole!!!
2007-01-22 09:29:55 · answer #4 · answered by veevintage 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Actually, I don't think evolution even deserves to be called a theory, it is merely unscientific speculation based on circular reasoning and wishful thinking.
A theory, at the very least, needs to comply with scientific laws, but evolution (right from the start in its alleged naturalistic origin of life, and the origin of the information for life) contradicts several, established Laws. If a hypothesis defies scientific law then, as a person who respects scientific law, I give it no hope.
If you can tell me: -
1.How the DNA code and the means of translating it (RNA) could have formed themselves simultaneously (of their own accord) in the primordial soup?
2. How the information carried by the DNA code could have arisen from matter, of its own accord, simultaneously with the above in the primordial soup?
3. How the Law of Biogenesis was suspended to permit life to spontaneously generate itself of its own accord from inert matter?
4. How the blueprint for life came into being, as a potential property of matter at the outset of the universe's origin?
5. How the Laws of: Thermodynamics (2nd) and Probability were suspended to permit the necessary self arrangement and increase in order and complexity of the physical components of a living cell to take place in the primordial soup?
Then I will consider a rethink as to whether evolution deserves to be called a theory.
I certainly won't hold my breath!
2007-01-22 10:07:05 · answer #5 · answered by A.M.D.G 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Evolution is a theory. Which means it is experimentally viable to a high standard of verification, and has the status of a solid fact among scientific theories. People who think that evolution is JUST a theory don't understand the scienfitic definition of theory.
The God Hypothesis can only dream of becoming a theory. It hasn't a chance.
2007-01-22 09:26:49 · answer #6 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. "Just a theory" that happens to accurately explain the procession of organisms down through the eons. Including human beings, cows, pigs, cats and dogs. In fact, I've never seen any other explanation that makes any sense really. A first grader could see the truth in it. But unfortunately, religious zealots cannot.
2007-01-22 09:27:34 · answer #7 · answered by Gene Rocks! 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
So many people have no idea of the difference between a scientific theory and their theory that Alice stole their lunch from the office fridge. Those people pass off evolution as 'just a theory'.
2007-01-22 09:29:52 · answer #8 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
A mountain of evidence is impressive.
But without proof of one species becoming another, evolution will remain just a theory.
And, the evidence is impressive.
Equally glaring is the lack of proof.
2007-01-22 09:27:24 · answer #9 · answered by Bob L 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If the "its just a theory" argument were even remotely valid, it would read "its only a hypothesis"... This particular theory has been proven, just not "proven." The only piece of proof left between the word fact and theory is to go back in time and watch it happen.
2007-01-22 09:28:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋