thranx said:
theprof00 said:
thranx said:
spurgeonryan said:
MrBubbles said:
plenty of christians believe in evolution and the big bang theory. |
Come on now! Most kids growing up in a religous home get taught many things, one of them is that Evolution is wrong!
I am sure there are some Christians who believe that, but I assure you a majority refuse to!
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If your talking about the US. I think you would be wrong. I think you are generalising christians all together when they should not be. There are many types with many different levels of belief. I think many non christians mistake the veiws of christians. I have personaly never met a single person who does not believe in some part of evolution. At the same time, evolution is still a theory and is not the end all be all explanation for life and how we came to be.
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using the word theory as if it is just a guess until we have proof of something else is undermining the term quite a bit.
A theory is a carefully put together explanation of why things happen.
In terms of "speciation", which is what the theory of evolution attempts to explain, it is an explanation why speciation occurs.
Micro-evolution is a proven process. It is testable and repeatable and predictable. However, the main problem that people have with evolution is that scientists extrapolate this micro evolution across species into larger genera. There isn't much evidence to support this because there is simply no way to test it or show it within the short span of time we've been around.
However, the concept of evolution is 100% proven. Nothing will prove it wrong.
There is no, like, graduation from theory to law or fact etc etc, because they all mean different things. A theory in day to day conversation is not scientific theory.
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as far as how humans came to be evolution is very much just a "theory." There are far too many missing pieces in the chain. That is all i said. I never said evolution does not happen, i said it is not the end be all explaniton for how things are today, and that is true. Its a theory that is missing pieces to explain it all. It explains some things, and does it rather well, but not everything.
edit: in retrospect i could of worded the last sentance slightly differently, but in the sense of what people where talking about in the thread as far as humans evolving it stands.
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1. Never say ''just a theory'', theories are scrutinized, tested and supported by the scientific evidence currently available (which in this case is staggering).
2. The evolution of our species is not a simple chain, that is a gross oversimplification.
3. There is no such thing as missing links, transitional fossils map out an excellent picture of our species' evolutionary ancestry.
4. You have Internet access and enough free time to educate yourself with no cost other than a bit of effort, for the love of f**k do so please.
