Do You Accept Evolution as a Fact?

[Pemalite]

palou said:

Pemalite said:

The hilarious part about this... When I was in Queensland Australia, I was staying at a place near an extinct volcano which had historically had significant pumice flows sometime in history. There were massive boulders that could literally float on the water. I kid you not.

Volcanic stone is extremely light, and often traps gases, giving it a lower density than water.

Sadly the same scientific reasoning doesn't work with me after curry night.

Safiir said:

Well, yeah but in order to properly analyse and understand the empirical evidence you do need several qualified (as in know enough about the subject) people who generally agree on the results.

It's called "Peer Review". And happens extensively in the Scientific Community.

You don't have one person going out and performing a test and using that evidence to build a model which in turn becomes the basis of a Theory... It needs to be verified by other peers.

craighopkins said:

The Theory Of Evolution Is An Evil Lie From Satan

The Theory of Evolution has no place in civilized society. It is a tyrannical ideology, never composed for the sake of scientific discovery (as it was with Newton), but for the conquest of the world, the ascending of government over the Laws of God, the extermination of the helpless, the degeneration of human life, the enslavement of man under a select elite, and ultimately, the obliteration of Christianity.

Maybe Christianity should be obliterated if that's your perspective.

craighopkins said:
evolution teaches that life started from non-life and has diversified (evolved) over eons of time from one thing to the next.

And the evidence that supports that theory is wrong... How exactly?

craighopkins said:
However, the Bible says ten times in the first chapter of Genesis that everything reproduces “after his kind.”

If you are going to use Genesis, then I assume you are in full support of the Bibles Old Testament.
That means you support Slavery, Death to Homosexuals, Stoning of Children, Against Divorce, Women must serve men and more...

craighopkins said:
 This is scientifically observable, testable and repeatable. Dogs give birth to dogs, people to people, cats to cats, etc. However, there is no evidence of anything giving rise to anything other than its own kind. Therefore, the evolutionary teachings do not qualify as science, but rather a belief

Correct. Dogs do give birth to Dogs. Evolution doesn't state anything that contradicts that.

But do you know what the common ancestor of all Dogs is? The Wolf. The Wolf didn't stop existing either.
Evolution isn't about a species changing into another via mutation. It's more like a family Tree.

The Fossil record, The Fruit-Fly Maze, Viruses/Bacteria changing, Breeding different traits in Animals (I.E. Dogs) and more is all evidence that supports the Evolutionary theory.

There is ZERO evidence for the existence of your God, thus Evolution comes first.

craighopkins said:

In Mark 10:6, Jesus said, “But from the beginning of the creation God made them [Adam and Eve] male and female.”

If we all came from Adam and Eve, does that mean you are against Same-sex marriage but support Incest? I ask this, because if we all came from two people there would not have been sufficient genetic diversity and that would have been catastrophic for humanity to progress.

Take the Banana for example. Pretty much all Banana Tree's are clones. And because there is not sufficient genetic diversity, they are prone to being completely wiped out by a single disease.