The fight over Darwin - Teaching evolution in schools

[appolose]

Khuutra said:

appolose said:

Finding a bird fossil the predates dinosaurs (dating methods being another unfalsifiable thing) would not disprove that birds evolved from dinosaurs.  It could simply mean that it happened to evolve from something else during that time frame, and not contradict the current belief that the fossil record shows that todays birds are descendents of dinosaurs.

As for evolution being observed today, yes, I would agree that that is science (not that I think it is actually evolution, mind you).

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Whoa there

Slow down

If evolution being observed today isn't evolution, then what the Hell is it?

Yeah, I've caught a lot of flack for this in the past :/

Basicially, by evolution, I'm not referring to the overly-broad "descent with modification" - we've know that a child will look different from its parents for a good while now.  Nor do I mean by evolution even natural selection combined with random mutation (I acknowledge both of those as true).  By evolution, I mean the idea that, given natural selection and random mutation, a bird could eventually have a fish for a descendent.