Can you give me the definition of science and then say that evolution is science???

Question

So far the only thing anybody has done is give me the definition of science and then said: "Evolution is science!" NO EVIDENCE! It's all imagination and theory!

The fossil record also shows complex organisms in the lowest layers. They have found Dinosaur footprints with human foot prints. Any animal in the fossil record you could find alive today, looks the same as it's ancesters. Why aren't there any transitional fossils? If evolutioon is true than we should find millions of them.

The fossil record also shows complex organisms in the lowest layers. They have found Dinosaur footprints with human foot prints. Any animal in the fossil record you could find alive today, looks the same as it's ancesters. Why aren't there any transitional fossils? If evolutioon is true than we should find millions of them.

Answer 1

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Science (from the Latin scientia, 'knowledge') is a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as the organized body of knowledge gained through such research.[1][2] Science as defined here is sometimes termed pure science to differentiate it from applied science, which is the application of scientific research to specific human needs.

Fields of science are commonly classified along two major lines:

natural sciences, which study natural phenomena (including biological life), and
social sciences, which study human behavior and societies.

Evolution is science

Answer 2

Get real! You seriously think that professional scientists, experts in their field, accept a scientific theory WITHOUT EVIDENCE?? Or to put it more accurately, you think that such experts elevate a hypothesis to the exalted status of a scientific theory without evidence?? Seriously, does that make any sense at all? Biological evolution is one of the best supported scientific theories in existence - supported by EVIDENCE. Which is why evolutionary theory serves as the foundation and unifying factor of all biological science, just as atomic theory forms the foundation of all science. (you do realize that the existence of atoms is "only a theory", right?)

Yes, there are "complex organisms" in the oldest sediments because the simplest organisms were and still are gelatinous creatures that cannot be fossilized. Fossils didn't become common until animals had evolved shells and bones and other hard parts, and by that time such animals had become relatively complex, though not nearly as complex as animals in later geologic time.

NO, no-one has found dinosaur footprints alongside human footprints. That claim was thoroughly exposed as a hoax many years ago. Don't you ever read?

NO animal alive today looks "the same as" its ancient ancestors. Some living species do look similar to their extinct ancestral species - indicating a slower rate of evolutionary change - but they are still clearly different species. And besides, even if 90% of living species looked almost the same as their ancestors of 10 million years ago, there would still be others that DON'T look similar. How do you account for those?? Modern sharks and coelacanths may be quite similar - though not identical - to some ancient forms, but modern cats and elephants and horses are very different from their known ancestors.

Transitional forms? There are hundreds of them! Fish-amphibian transtional forms. Amphibian-reptile. Reptile-mammal. Reptile-bird. Again, if you bothered to do a little reading, such information is readily available. Here's a good place to start ...

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/

Answer 3

>"The fossil record also shows complex organisms in the lowest layers. They have found Dinosaur footprints with human foot prints. Any animal in the fossil record you could find alive today, looks the same as it's ancesters."

Can you point to any reputable scientific source that backs these statements up? And I don't mean "creationist_nonsense.com", or "dr_idono.com"? I mean like a scientific journal, a reputable university, a published paper, or something?

In other words, in the same breath that you complain that scientists accept evolution with NO EVIDENCE ... you present a series of absurd statements yourself with NO EVIDENCE.

Just a tad bit hypocritical wouldn't you say?

Answer 4

You have been misinformed. What you have to understand is that as time passes, the world moves into new times and new things, and the human understanding must constantly be renewed. God makes all things new!

Beginning about 300 years ago, the human ability to reason brought about the Enlightenment, and with it the scientific revolution. For most people, the Enlightenment brought intellectual freedom and an opportunity to draw closer to a rational grasp of the reality in which we are immersed.

THESE PEOPLE ARE THE WINNERS.

There remained and still remain, however, a minority of people who do not understand the meaning, the power, the godliness and the beauty of that rational understanding, but instead find it frightening. These people prefer to remain with their incorrect understanding that in the past there were people who had a correct understanding of things that came from supernatural sources. These people insist that their faulty understanding of the older magical sources is the real understanding, and that those who have accepted the rational way of approaching reality must be wrong because modern people disagree with what the leaders of these regressive thinkers want their followers to believe.

THESE PEOPLE ARE THE LOSERS.

The winners win and the losers lose for the simple reason that REALITY IS WHAT REALITY IS, AND NO ONE'S WISHES TO THE CONTRARY MATTER AT ALL.

Evolution is a well understood process. The evidence for evolution is overwhelming, and all the winners accept the notion of evolution. Only the losers refuse to accept it.

Here is a web site that is easy to understand that explains in simple terms why the notion of Evolution describes reality correctly.

http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evohome.html

From this you will learn why the Godly, sane approach to reality is to accept the fact that Evolution explains part of the mystery of how God creates his creation, and why being afraid to accept the notion of Evolution is ungodly and based on irrational fears.

Please save your fear for fearing ("revering") God, and see if you can outgrow fearing reality. Leave the LOSERS behind, and become a WINNER. Relax, and let the Holy Spirit carry you into the real world.

Answer 5

Part of evolution is science. The record of modern taxonomy, fossils, and genetics supports isolated clusters of genetically related organisms. Evolution is most likely an accurate explanation of how a given cluster developed from a single ancestor. Any extension beyond this departs from science. We have no evidence whatsoever, taxa DNA or fossil, that mammals and fish developed from a common genetic source. It's plausible that few transition forms would be found; it's implausible that none would be found.

Answer 6

Science: the process of acquiring information about some tangible, real thing through observations. The collected information can be put together and analyzed and form a theory about some thing or some system of things--pure science. Or, the collected information can be used to create new, or work with current, things--applied science.
Evolution: a theory based upon observations of real tangible forms of life from past to present.

Religion: a theory based upon beliefs about a divine entity based upon what someone said without any tangible thing to observe.
Personally, I believe some sort of divine entity did create the universe and everything in it which sceince investigates and helps to explain, but I don't buy into any man made religion yet invented. Every religion out there spouts off about being kind and caring to your fellow human, unless of course, they belong to a different religion. Then, in the name of your religion, those others must be hunted down and killed. Number one cause of war throughout human history has been religion. How does that even make sense?
Can't wait to see how many religious lemmings, or sheep would be another good term, give me a thumbs down for this answer.

Answer 7

Science is essentially forming a theory on how some system works and then trying to disprove the theory.
If the theory stands up to all efforts to disprove it using logic and observation the it can be considered fact.
The study of evolution is a science, in that the fossil records discovered by paleontologists prove that modern life has evolved over billions of years from simple organisms to the complexity of todays species.

Answer 8

Archy,

You do know that God made evolution and that by denying the facts of evolution you are in effect denying God. Given that so many have flogged the lie that evolution somehow proves that there is no God, it is understandable that you would initially react this way as your previous posts indicate. Nevertheless, it is time to face the fact. Either God is a trickster that spreads the whole of creation with false evidence and lies about the way in which he has created the world or you have bought into a lie that evolution somehow diminishes God. Who is the liar here, God or Darwin?

Begin reading the link below at paragraph 62-70 and then jump back to the beginning.

Answer 9

"systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation" I'd say evolution falls quite nicely into that category. But you aren't looking for real answers, you just want to anger people.

Answer 10

Science is a way of solving problems and finding answers
this is done thru making inquiries , inferences, observations
measurements , and experiments. Evolution is a theory which means it is still being researched. Science is all around us. We live it daily.