Still don't believe in evolution? Try this!

[One Brow]

If all "ways" are labled "evolution" of course evolution can't help but be truth.

"so many different" =/= "all"

Real scientists don't claim "any movement is gravity" in the way cultist onebrow claims "any change is evolution."

Like your heroes, you quote-mine to smear. I said that in response to a comment about the fictitious notion of de-evolution. It is more precise to say that any change in the population as generations proceed is evolution.

The invisible force that causes a predictable and specific type of movement is labeled "gravity."

Other movement occurs through the influence/design of an outside force...

Nonsense. The other three fundamental forces also cause the movement of mass, with neither design nor influence.

So if we see an apple fall to the ground we don't have to insist that it was a random occurence for our observation to be considered scientific. We recognice the invisible force called "gravity" as a scientifically relevant explanation for certain movement.

Similarly, when we see a change in a population over generations, we don't have to insist that it was a random occurrence for our observation to be considered scientific. We recognize the invisible mechanic called "selection" as a scientifically relevant explanation for certain changes.

Back to your insistence that you couldn't possibly pick just one cultist story for how complex organs came into existence. Darwin claimed they came into existence in a specific way, "numerous successive, slight modifications,"...

Which modification came first, second, third, etc.? Did any appear at the same time? You can order a set of n items in n! ways (so, for 7 items, there are 5040 ways to order them). Even if you rule out 90% of the orders, that's still 50 to choose from, and we don't know which particular order is correct.

 

[Deleted member 848]

But can you prove it's not?

Do you subscribe to the belief of intelligent design?

 

[Deleted member 848]

Keep posting, PearlWatson. I'm probably gonna read through this thread with my evolutionary biology prof (yes, he does have a PhD, which seems to matter so much to you).

 

[MVP]

new human kind evolving in USA?

 

[♪alt13]

But can you prove it's not?

You can't ask people to prove a negative especially when your claim is supernatural.

Can you prove that there is not invisible munchkins living in my beard, feeding on my soul, and producing magic elixirs to protect me from evil spirits that if given the chance would rearrange my chacras putting my genital chi on my third eye ultimately making me a bigger dickhead than I already am?

 

[One Brow]

But can you prove it's not?

When you posted this, I did not even consider you to be asking the question seriously, but you managed to get a couple of other posters to respond as if you were. Well done?

 

[PearlWatson]

Keep posting, PearlWatson. I'm probably gonna read through this thread with my evolutionary biology prof (yes, he does have a PhD, which seems to matter so much to you).

Bring professor Darwiniac on and show him this while you are at it:

1) the title of PhD is meaningless-- just because someone has a three-letter title, this does not in any way mean that their knowledge of science is automatically superior to that of an individual without that distinction. We should base our opinions on people based on the construction of their arguments, not on the parchments of paper that they have framed on their wall from some random college.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Bring professor Darwiniac on and show him this while you are at it:

I just showed my research supervisor, who has a PhD, an MSc, and runs an extremely successful research lab.

He said he completely agrees with me, and that it's a common sentiment in academia.

 

[scootsy]

@pearl

 

[LogGrad98]

You can't ask people to prove a negative especially when your claim is supernatural.

Can you prove that there is not invisible munchkins living in my beard, feeding on my soul, and producing magic elixirs to protect me from evil spirits that if given the chance would rearrange my chacras putting my genital chi on my third eye ultimately making me a bigger dickhead than I already am?

Nope can't prove that wrong. But there is some debate over whether the last part there is even possible.

 

[carolinajazz]

new human kind evolving in USA?

...good one AK!....and although is not "evolution" in action....it is "de-evolution" in a dress code!

 

[carolinajazz]

Religion, beliefs, bah. Live and let live......Do what you think is best for you.

...but doesn't "decency" trump "live and let live?" "Live and let live" leads to anarchy....which is what we have on a worldwide scale right now! Antonyms for decency are:badness, evil, evildoing, immorality, iniquity, sin, villainy, wickedness!