Posted on 06/25/2007 5:18:09 AM PDT by Chi-townChief
No they dont.
That's the scientific process at work. Theories are developed, research, tested, and published for other to examine and challenge. Sometimes the theory is found to be inaccurate and is replaced with a newer theory. Often the additional research supports the original hypothesis. All science, including evolution, goes through this.
Why isn't a similar process used in intelligent design or creationism?
The Big Lie. Evolution is without support.
(See: Cambian Explosion)
If there is no proof of the central contention of evolutionary theory, species evolving (being created) through natural selection, then it is not “one of the best supported theories” in science. It’s pretty weak actually given the whole world and all species to observe . . .
i cannot tell you how many times this happened:
1. i am writing a software program, and make an error;
2. the error is actually fate intervening, for suddenly my program runs perfectly, beyond my wildest expectations
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The theory has been attacked from day one and people have spent the last 150 years working to fill in the holes. Are there still gaps in our understanding? Yes. But nowhere near the gaps in creationism. And with intelligent design it's hard to tell because the entire premise of that seems to be that by poking holes in evolution and saying if evolution is wrong then intelligent design is correct by default. That's not science, either.
Correct. Species evolve within their own species but do not evolve into another species. Macro-evolution is just as much a matter of faith as any other religion.
Part of the theory also is that this process happened over millions of years. You want to see it happen over a few decades.
Oh yes, we have examples of contemporary speciation, plus cases of incipient speciation.
So there is millions of years of evidence to work with. Still, as far as I know, no proof of any species evolving into another species based on any evidence. I’m asking honestly though if there is a claim that there is proof one species evolving into another, I have just read that there is none . . . that the “missing link” is still missing . . . for every species on the planet.
Faith in a Creator to which all will be held accountable improves society immeasurably more than some theory whose whole purpose is to remove belief in said Creator to the end that all will define their own morality, leading to anarchy and eventual enslavement to those who garner enough power to define right and wrong for everyone else.
Now there’s a built-in defense mechanism if I ever saw one.
“It takes million of years to observe, therefore I win the argument in this lifetime.”
What, education? I’m quite interested in it. Did you have questions?
As opposed to "God did it?"
I’m sorry, but we cannot be blamed for the slow pace of major evolutionary change. Fortunately we have records of it in the form of genetic evidence and fossil evidence.
I didn’t say that. From a debate perspective it’s fairly cheap to say that your process takes millions of years, because you can counter nearly any claim with that statement.
Where is it?
Correct - that’s why I like how intelligent design has come forward in the last few years. For too long, many have just sat back and said, “evolution - case closed” just as the global warming folks are trying to do. As we have seen, what works with lab rats doesn’t necessarily work with people.
Not only are the “missing links” still missing,
but where are the millions of minute “mistakes” that didn’t make it?
And how about the impossible odds of the flagellum, requiring 17 simultaneous mutatations, none of which, in any other combination other than the exact one that we see today, could be of any evolutionary benefit?
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