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thranx on 08 January 2012
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bouzane said:
thranx said:
theprof00 said:
thranx said:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theory

 

Definition of THEORY

1
: the analysis of a set of facts in their relation to one another
2
: abstract thought : speculation
3
: the general or abstract principles of a body of fact, a science, or an art theory>
4
a : a belief, policy, or procedure proposed or followed as the basis of action theory that all children want to learn> b : an ideal or hypothetical set of facts, principles, or circumstances —often used in the phrase in theory theory, we have always advocated freedom for all>
5
: a plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena theory of light>
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a : a hypothesis assumed for the sake of argument or investigation b : an unproved assumption : conjecture c : a body of theorems presenting a concise systematic view of a subject <theory of equations>
So what part of what i said does not fall under those defintitons?
It is still just a theory. It proves some aspects of how some creautires came to be. It is not a fact of how humans came to be and can not be proved as such. So its a "theory" with all that implies. Do not try to make it more than it to be. We were talking on the evolution of humans, not on if evolution occurs or is possible. So please exaplin to me how the theory of human evoluiton is somehow a proven fact, and not a combination of ideas thought to be true but not proven so.

Explain to me how theory of gravity is unproven.

Explain to me how the theory of relativity is just a theory.

Explain how theory of flight implies anything more than the concrete facts of flight.

I never said every theory out there is unprooven. I have even agreed to evoltuion being a valid theory. All I said was that we can not proove with 100% certainty that humans are the way we are because of evolution. All of you supporters seem to take evolution theory as gospel when it has some very big holes in it. It does not fully explain how we came to be, and there are missing links and pieces to the chain. You can argue all you want what theory means, but i put the definition right there for you, it happens to have quite a few meanings and the way i used it was correct.


Sorry but at this point you have already been corrected on several points. There are no missing links per se, that is a gross misnomer. Please read the following article on transitional fossils:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitional_fossil

Additionally, there is no simple evolutionary chain. This concept typically relates to the ''Great Chain of Being'', a concept that has long been abandoned by the scientific community:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_chain_of_being

You state that there are some very big holes in the Evolutionary Theory, I'm curious as to which one(s) are you referring to?

The big holes would be the steps taken between what we were before and what we are now. PLease show me the single cell organsim we evlovled from all the way through to humans. I have yet to see that. If we did evolve from other things were are the baby steps?