Why do people keep saying that Evolution is?

Question

"just a theory" or "based on chance"?
Survival of the fittest is basic genetics. Those who had the best survival traits (such as white rabbits in tundra) outlived the the lesser survival traits (black rabbits in tundra) and had lots and lots of babies. Eventually those genetics became dominant and the lesser died out. How in the hell is that chance??

And why the way, do people know the difference between theory and hypothesis? Creationism is untestable hypothesis, evolotion is theory...ugh its time to get off here for the day. I've hit my limit of stupid for the day.

primoa you just showed the world you have no idea what the definition of theory in science actually means. Sooo the theory of gravity wouldn't be true if the Bible says its not? Give me a break!

And for the record, since some ppl don't "get" my name, I'm not atheist. I'm Pagan. I am not saying the Divine's didn't SPARK life, but I am not going to say that science is wrong. It's not.

Answer 1

A theory is "a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena" [Random House American College Dictionary]. The term does not imply tentativeness or lack of certainty. For instance Human Sexual Reproduction is the theory that explains where babies come from.

And Evolution is highly non-random. Natural selection is the furthest thing from being random.Of all the lies creationists tell about evolution, the lie that evolution is random is the one that bothers me the most.

This particularly bothers me because Natural Selection is the furthest thing from being random and because I am a Mathematician I actually know what random means.

Note Mutations are random but Natural Selection is absolutely NOT. It is the fact that Natural Selection is highly non-random which is the driving mechanism behind information increase in biological systems. Evolution is absolutely NOT random. Anyone who claims it is is either being moronic or lying or has absolutely no idea what the word random even means.

Definition of Random: A process is considered random if when operating on a sufficiently large sets, the distribution of the output of the process is roughly the same as the input of the process.

In a process all it takes is one non-random subprocess to make the entire process non-random. An example is the following process.

1. Start with six thousand rolled dice.
1. Roll the dice again ( this is random since the distribution will roughly be the same given enough tries )
2. Take the rolled dice and throw out all the dice which didn't turn up six. This is highly non-random since the distribution is radically different.

The result of this will will be somewhere around one thousand dice with six turned up ( clearly non random since we have selected only sixes. While the original distribution has roughly equal numbers of each result.)


This is a lot like evolution. Mutation is random but Natural Selection takes the result and non-randomly selects only winners. So the total process is very non-random.

Answer 2

Evolution is a scientific theory. It's just most creationists don't (or don't want to) understand that in science, the term "theory" has a lot more weight than in the lay world. A hypothesis can only become a theory after a lot, lot, lot of testing and evidence back it up, without any evidence contradicting it. A theory is the closest thing to a fact that a hypothesis can be labelled in science.

Answer 3

Evolution is scientific theory. Gravity is considered scientific law. Both are different than scientific hypothesis. Many respected scientists believe that the Theory of Evolution should move back into the hypothesis stage because there are problems with many of its principles.

Some parts of the Theory of Evolution are clear and proven such as adaptation. Most Creationists actually accept adaptation and have no problem with it. Species-to-species evolution has not been proven, however, and is the principle that those who reject Creation seem to rely most heavily on.

Answer 4

Because it is a theory. Until it is empirically proven in can not be made into a scientific law. Even though there is a lot of evidence out there for evolution that does not mean it has been proven yet. By calling it a theory does not reduce it's scientific implications many of science's advancements are still considered theories yet they are imperative to our belief in the way the world works. There are many theories we take as truth such as relativity, the atomic theory, and gravity. Many theories are basically solidified as truth yet they can not become law because we can not empirically prove them. That is when you need faith. You either have faith that the science is right or you do not.

Answer 5

American Heritage Dictionary - the·o·ry (thē'ə-rē, thîr'ē)

1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
2. The branch of a science or art consisting of its explanatory statements, accepted principles, and methods of analysis, as opposed to practice: a fine musician who had never studied theory.
3. A set of theorems that constitute a systematic view of a branch of mathematics.
4. Abstract reasoning; speculation: a decision based on experience rather than theory.
5. A belief or principle that guides action or assists comprehension or judgment: staked out the house on the theory that criminals usually return to the scene of the crime.
6. An assumption based on limited information or knowledge; a conjecture.

Now, look at which definition is number 1 and which definition is number 6. Can you see the difference? Can we just stop the "it's only a theory" nonsense?

Answer 6

Because it's like saying that bricks and glass just smashed into each other and magically built your house. We all have survival instincts.. they were installed by God to keep us, and animals safe.

We also have written documents, etc from people from thousands of years ago that show people were just as smart, if not more so then the days we live in. So I'm guessing a duck billed giraffe wrote it? All joking aside.. everything that takes up space is matter. Matter is made up out of atoms, and inside atoms.. they cannot explain the existence for themselves inside their selves. So it's logic that even tells us, we have to look for an outside source. Something that has intelligence and put all this together. If the sun were any closer, we would all fry to death, and if the sun were any farther away, we would all freeze to death. Is everything just coincidence? It's pretty hard to even consider it.

With love through Christ Jesus,

Dusty

PS: The bible never says how old the earth is, or what was on it before it became a void less thing. It says "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth..." When was the beginning? no one knows.

PSS: People, if you're going to defend the bible, you need to do so in a tasteful way. Not an ungodly way, or you give God a bad name. And that is not something he looks fondly on. Tell the truths, but in a respectful, loving manner. It's up to the individual to seek, and choose.

Answer 7

you obtain some quite exciting solutions on your question. i might in no way scream at you-have confidence me on that. enable's think of approximately this logically. the place did all of it initiate? the place did count number come from? grow to be there no longer something and then there grow to be some thing? Does that conform to the regulations of physics? Or will we could droop perception in organic regulations as a fashion to describe the initiating of each and every thing? enable's faux that count number miraculously appeared. ok, so now we wait a whilst longer and a one celled organism seems (back miraculously). Then what? Multi-celled organisms miraculously seem? Hmmm. no longer something interior the fossil checklist helps that. Now, we are in worry. All we see interior the fossil checklist are ameliorations. Why? assume, blue eyed human beings have been genetically susceptible. they might not stay to reproduce, might they? So the blue eyed human beings might end to exist. So it is going with animals. What we don't see interior the fossil checklist is a bypass between 2 species, by using fact they in no way existed.

Answer 8

You don't study much do you?

Even the best evolutioary scientists will tell you that evolution is, at best, a working theory that has yet to be proven.

Here is a neat fact that NON Christian scientist have come up with.........
Measuring the amount of decay in the magnetic field of the earth and going backwards increasing the amount of intensity as per the same rate of decay, they have found that just a mere 1 million years ago that because of the intensity of the magnetic field, earth could not have supported life......

aint that cool?

Also, againsy by non christina scientists, they can measure the rate a gases given off by certain rock that were carbon dated toi 45 million years old and found that, again by going backwards at the rate od gas dispersment, that these rocks could be no more than 5 or 6 thousand years old

ain't that cool too?!.......

Answer 9

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Answer 10

The issue I have isnt evolution, its the higher than art thou intellects that think every religious person is obviously some brain washed idiot who cant think for themselves. Essentially both sides are wrong. Evolution is real, but to assume evolution somehow proves the non-existance of God is extremely ignorant.

Example, take God away from the equation and basically you say we evolved from nothing? Does anything in this universe evolve from nothing? This in fact goes so far over the intellects head they fail to see the simple message...if they dont believe in God their theory of evolution becomes obsolete since nothing in evolution evolves from nothing...and please spare me the infinite universe capabilities BS. There are no infinite values in this universe either. And again, dont compare God to any finite or infinite values you claim in this universe because God is not made of this universe. Do you get my point, or am I too dumb for this conversation?