Chaos Driven Life? How Neo-Darwinians Lost Their Marbles

Of course, words like "belief" and "faith" are not used by science.

True. but then again, evolution isn't science, it's an ideological interpretation of science designed to accord with a preconceived worldview.

Yashcheritsiy: "then again, evolution isn't science, it's an ideological interpretation of science designed to accord with a preconceived worldview. "

Sorry, FRiend, but regardless of how often, or how loudly, you people chant your mantra, "evolution is not science, evolution is not science...", it still is and on occasion even US courts have told you legally you can't claim to redefine "science" to suit your own purposes.

Science itself defines basic evolution theory as a confirmed hypothesis, which is as good as it gets, short of actual observations.
Indeed, there are more confirmed observations supporting evolution theory than someone like Darwin could even have imagined.

As for "preconceived worldview" the one thing "preconceived" which helps define natural-science is its foundational rule: only natural explanations for natural processes.
So any super-natural understandings (i.e., intelligent or purposeful designs) must come from outside the realm of natural science.

In short, you have to provide your own religious understandings, science will not do that for you.

Zeneta: "Every newly discovered missing link in the fossil record or tree of life creates at least two more missing links.
And this is considered science."

Which demonstrates that those yelling loudest about "missing links" are not really asking for more evidence, but rather are denying the possibility that any evidence could ever satisfy them.

But in some cases we are 100% certain of evolution even without any "missing links".
A good example is evolution of wolves to dogs which we know was caused by human animal husbandry creating a new sub-species starting over 25,000 years ago.

So the theory part of evolution theory simply says that if we could see those "missing links" they would show us that both natural and man-made evolution happens generation by generation in response to the forces of natural or human selection.

Education includes history and business.

Uh hunh. Mine includes science. Like actual science. Enough to distinguish between what is actual empirical science discovered through the scientific method, and what is worldview-driven interpretation designed to substantiate a particular viewpoint. Evolution is not a confirmed hypothesis. Evolution is an *assumed* hypothesis, supported by interpretations of data for which it does not logically follow that they are the only, or even the most reasonable, interpretations.

Go sell your cookies to someone else, Girl Scout.

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