Howard Baker passes

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Rupert Pupkin

I didn't read the whole article. That was a long article. I skimmed over it. The title was "Why everything you've been told about evolution is wrong."

Sigh. Here's something new for you, Rupert (and I don't mean that nasty; a lot of people don't know this)- headlines to articles are not written by the same person who wrote the article. They're written by a different person, whose job it is to craft the headline so that someone will click on the article. Whether they then read the article or not is not as important as getting the click. I know reading is boring for lots of people, but you really have to read the entire article if you're going to use it to defend your position. Because the article didn't dispute that evolution happens at all; just whether natural selection is the primary engine. And that's not new news in evolutionary theory.

I have a question for you. Do you think evolution has been proven or is it just a theory? From my searches on google, everything I'm seeing says that it is still just a theory. There may be parts to it that are proven but there are still way too many parts that are unproven. That is why it is still referred to as a "theory".

I would be curious to know what you're using for your Google search terms.

Evolution is a law; it has been observed in labs; we've observed it in real life. We can do it artificially ourselves (see: dog breeds). Where you're getting hung up is that you don't understand the difference between A) theory and law and B) scientific theory and colloquial "theory." I like you, Rupe, I do, and I want to help. Here's a good piece giving you a summary of 5 things people misunderstand about evolution, with explanation. And it's mostly pictures!

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/top-five-m...sci-1597926769

Here is a page that gives a non-religious summary of the scientific evidence for both creationism and evolution.

http://www.icr.org/article/summary-s...-for-creation/

Non-religious? Did you spend any time on the site you linked to? Here's from their "About" page for the School of Biblical Apologists:

"The Institute for Creation Research School of Biblical Apologetics provides graduate-level training in biblical education and apologetics. SOBA’s foundation is Scripture, which the school and its faculty hold as inerrant, accurate, and authoritative. Biblical creation, with a special emphasis on Genesis 1-11, is a significant focus of all SOBA degrees, majors, and minors, which sets ICR’s program apart from other graduate level apologetic programs."

(Also: please note "apologetic" does not mean in a debate sense what it means in a colloquial sense.)

I also looked at that first page and it's chock full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations of evolutionary theory.