Evolution Forum

[highwaystar101]

TheRealMafoo said:

I do think we evolve, and millions of years ago, we were something very different. But to read a book that tells you where we came from, is as much a religion as saying god made us.

We really have no clue how we started. I am confident one day we will, just not yet.

To my point. If you took an astronomy class in the 1960's, and asked any professor what the surface of Venus was. Every one would have given you an answer. None of them would have said "we don't know".

None of them would have been right.

This is what I mean. Today, we don't know. Why can't we just say that?

We do say that.

We say it for things we generally don't know about such as 'what shape is the universe', where no observable data really exists yet. The thing is, when we get some data we have to make assumptions so that we can further analyse it and better understnd it. Half the impossible stuff you hear about is really a case of knowing 10% but looking at what direction it is pointing in so you know which way to look in the observations.

Evolution, however, has a endless facts backing it up, observed evolutions and the like. If it does in fact turn out to be incorrect then whatever theory replaces it will be similar due to having to support all the evolution evidence already gathered. I think it is a 95% sure bet evolution is on the correct lines.