Evolution Forum

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Sommernacht said:

Rath said:

@Sommer.

In science theory means a broad mechanism that explains an observation and from which testable predictions can be made. The amount of evidence is irrelevant to its titling. Evolution is extremely widely accepted amongst the scientific community.

Also evolution only has to do with after life began, everything before that is rather irrelevant to evolution.

Widely accepted: sure, but still not entirely ;)

True: Evolution deals with after life began. I just wanted to extend the topic a bit as the general discussion was also going toward the direction of religion, god etc... and I actually also wanted to point out that this is a different sort of question.

 

Insofar as it matters for conducting basic scientific research it is totally accepted by the "scientific establishment". The fine detail has not been 100% ironed out (may never be) but the broad concept is firmly established. To say that debate remains on the broad issue of evolution in the scientific community is total ignorance.

I believe God caused the big bang, after that he left the processes of the physical universe alone. After all he formulated the laws governing the universe so he was safe in the knowledge that life would appear as planned and get to the point we are at now. When you know the initial conditions and influences of a system exactly and precisely, without the minutest uncertainty you know exactly how things will play out.