| IvorEvilen said: The fact that people actually believe in macro evolution boggles my mind more than anything else I have encounted in life. Not trying to offend anyone, but it's how I see it. It's not that I'm uninformed or anything either. I have seen the facts, and it just sounds like it came from a crackpot. Just because it is a "scientific" theory doesn't suddenly make it more credible than other theories. Nature is way too diverse and complex. I swear, once something gets labeled as science, it gets this added untouchable credibility to it that is incredibly biased and illogical. Oh well, I don't want to get dragged into an argument, so I should probably just avoid this thread. |
The reason why nature, I assume you're talking biologically, is complex is because life has undergone over almost 3 billion years of evolution in which each organism is pressured in harsh competition and only the fittest survived leading inevitably to complexity, and life is diverse because diversity allows a higher probability to survive due to access to new resources. Macroevolution is merely speciation which we've observed in our lifetime. Microevolution and Macroevolution use the same mechanisms. Microevolution is changes within a species(variations in humans) while Macroevolution is changes between species(the different species of finches in the galapagos) both which have been observed numerous times. What you're against is how long the earth has been around. As for the notion that science is bias, science is constantly challenging theories, hypothesis, and laws to see if they are compatible with nature. The reason why evolution, gravity, and atomic theory don't seem to be in much threat in the scientific community is because they are both very large portions but both very consistant to the evidence. What is being challenged everyday is the more specific details like why did our ancestors become bipedal, why did the neanderthals become extinct, which atomic model is the most accurate, etc. Because evolution has been proven, scientists base how to cure diseases with evolution. Saying this is bias is like saying that people designing airplanes are biased about gravity. We use scientific facts/theories/laws currently known to discover new scientifc facts and if those new facts are incompatible with the current facts/theories/laws, then those current theories/laws need to be revised. If the theory cannot be revised it must be discarded and a new theory/law must replace. Since the Origin of Species, the theory of evolution has been revised due to discovery of inheritence, DNA, organelles, but every single discovery has been 100% compatible with evolution, and that's why evolution is a fact.








