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Joelcool7 said:
Well I don't have time to read every page. This is often because atheists and many Scientists bundle all of Evolution theory with fact.
That's because the occurance of evolution is a fact, the theory of evolution by natural selection explains the fact. This is basic science. A theory doesn't then turn into a fact once it's proven, a theory gives explanations for facts.
Evolution occurs and within a species is fact. However their is little evidence of a species completely changing into another. Actually, there is a lot of evidence, we've found many transitional forms, even by it's strictest definition. Homologous structures? For example: In the calf of humans is the Plantaris muscle, it looks like a ligament due to it's length and width, but with the use of a microscope, we can see it's made out of muscle tissue. Heart surgeons usually harvest this muscle when needing extra muscle tissure for heart surgery, and after removal there is no effect on the patients walking or balance, at all. But although this muscle is useless in humans, the same muscle is much more developed in other primates and serves an important purpose. This muscle allows other primates to grasp with their feet. This is just one out of the huge amounts of examples of a homologous structure that acts as evidence of common ancestry of humans and other primates, this is macro-evolution.
Most of the evidence is found in genetics. Here is a massive compilation of the evidence for macro evolution: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
And with a quick google I've found that macro-evolution has been observed: http://www.dbskeptic.com/2008/06/21/macro-evolution-observed-in-the-laboratory/
Most evidence is circumstantial. Many also don't believe much of what scientists say because they are often wrong. In history how much Science still remains proven fact? Not much. We improve our understanding based on new evidence, the only instances where it changes drastically is something that isn't a proven fact, like the world being flat. E.g. Evolution is a fact, and though incredibly unlikely, if another theory were to replace Darwins, this wouldn't disprove evolution, it is still a fact that evolution occurs, what this would do is change our understanding of HOW it occurs.
Also the fossil record is inconsistent. Species are found on a regular basis that are supposed to be extinct some over 400 million years ago. Yet their found living and breathing today. So when a scientist says this animal was.extinct 400 million years ago or a billion years ago not many take them seriously. Urgh, I'm just getting sick of these fossil record arguements. The fossil record isn't inconsistent, your understanding of it is. It'd be great if you could watch all of this, but for a specific part of the fossil record skip to 7:00: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w57_P9DZJ4&list=PLD07D73CD6333903F&index=3&feature=plpp_video
Abiogenesis and Big Bang theory are both unlikely to ever be recognized. Because they are used to disprove God which they might but they also might not. "Are both unlikely to ever be recognized"? By who? You? This has nothing to do with evolution, and I doubt I'm educated enough on these topics to argue either way, so I'm not getting into this.
Many Christians today support Micro Evolution and even convergent evolution. They will not support anything that is scientific theory. Only fact.
Again, observations are facts, a scientific theory is the explanation of these observations. People like this won't support scientific theory because they don't know what a scientific theory is. You demonstrated this clearly.
Christians often hold a view that the English translation Genesis is completely fact. If they read the actual Hebrew and other translations. Their is reason to believe that the story was fact but not as the English translation necessarily says.
The Genesis story does not explain in detail how God created the earth. So much theology and interpretation involved. No believer in any belief system is going to be swayed by anything not entirely proven in fact. As such Atheists and Christians and Jews, Muslims they will never be swayed and science will never prove God does or does not exist.
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