In view of the text of our Constitution it is an abomination to expect the theory of evolution to enjoy an exclusive hearing by law in public schools, regardless of any further implications.
Oh, I see you ARE still espousing drunken sophomoric philosophy.
*whew* You have me worried.
Well, measurements that show the earth is about 4.5 billion years old and the Universe about 14 billion years old do not seem to me "small-scale".
One of the many beauties of evolution is that it incoporates a vast age that is fully supported by physics and astronomy and geology in many converging lines of evidence.
But can you prove via your criteria (direct experimentation/observation) that Caesar or Jesus actually existed?
I think you have agreed that "God did it" is inadequate, because this is an argument from ignorance, which you reject on philosophical grounds.
In my earlier post, I suggested that repeatable, verifiable evidence of a supernatural/unnatural force would make this force natural, by definition, and thus dethrone gods.
There is another notion, namely, that gods or God can intervene willy-nilly changing everything according to their whim and omnipotence. It seems to me that this notion would destroy every concept in objective reality, methological determinism, and usual common sense.
But this view of an invisible, supernatural deity intervening randomly from time to time according to pleasures, and who is impervious to cause and effect, seems impossible of scientific examination.