Evolutionary superiority

No.A violation of 15 USC can only occur if the copyrighted symbol, picture, word or phrase is used for commercial gain without the copyright owner’s permission.In the case of Taz and Percy there is no commercial gain experienced by posting on this forum. There is no violation of the Uniform Commercial Code.It seems your knowledge of the law is a bit weak in this area. What a surprise.

Hillbilly, I hope you realize that we get nowhere if we are constantly re-inventing the wheel with every new generation. Not every school child needs to re-discover Calculus, Maxwell’s Equations or Relativity on their own. We learn from the conclusions others have already drawn. Some of the brighter kids will test those original conclusions to see for themselves, of course.This has been going on for hundreds of years now and most of these conclusions have remained intact. Those that have been found in error have been discarded and science advances forward with new conclusions. The great majority of our scientific advances, however, have been built by extending and using these conclusions of others.Evolution is one of the conclusions that has stood up to these repeated tests over the last 150 years. And it has given us great advances in genetics, agriculture, ecology, medicine, etc.The Big Bang is another.Please understand that no competent Science teacher will convey a story like “the universe came from nothing, everything in the universe came from nothing . ” or anything similar. Only religion says some god poofed it into existence by magic. Science does not say that.[aside]
Knowing your penchant to obscure what you find as unpleasant ideas with nitpicky syntax quibbles, let me say it first: I know Science does not say anything. Scientists do.
[/aside]All our data, all our evidence (and there is a whole lot of it for those who care to look) indicate that about 13+- billion years ago the universe was very small (smaller than the size of a proton) and has been expanding ever since. Where it came from we do not know. How it came into being we do not know. Yet.Any other story you may have heard about what Science says of where the universe came from or how it came into being is either a gross misunderstanding of what you heard or a misrepresentation (willful or from ignorance) of the facts we do know.I guess there is a third scenario. All other stories about the birth of this universe are the fairy tales of superstitious religious wishful thinking . and there are thousands of them. And from the facts we do know, these fanciful stories can all be ignored.abe: Just to tie into the actual subject of this thread, yes, I am feeling quite superior at this point.Edited by AZPaul3, : To make the point.Edited by AZPaul3, : Stupid syntax errors.

Yep. Well the "small something" was the entire universe and the "place that did not exist yet" is a gross misunderstanding of the concept, but, other than those quibbles ... Yep. uhh...you forgot to read my words.

quote:

---

Where it came from we do not know. How it came into being we do not know. Yet.

---

This does not say "It just appeared from nowhere in nothing and started to expand into the universe we see today." It says,

quote:

---

Where it came from we do not know. How it came into being we do not know. Yet.

---

Not yet. Not yet. Not yet. Obviously it “came” from something as in it had some causal mechanism, we just don’t know what that causal mechanism was, yet. See above. There we have a major problem. I do not “believe” these facts based upon some science-flavored “faith” akin to the religious faith in things that have no evidence. And, unlike a religionist, I do not take what I have been “told” as gospel without adequate evidence to substantiate the claim. No comment. No, ICANT, I am not trying to make you believe anything.The data, the facts, the evidence is out there for anyone who cares to look. From Hubble’s observations, the Microwave Background and its source, the red shift data, Type-Ia supernova data and the list goes on, it is all there.I do not want you to believe it just because I said it. That is religion. That is stupid. If you care to, I invite you to see it all for yourself.I am not your priest. This is true . but then you make it so easy. I am not a believer, ICANT, but I do appreciate the sentiment. Thank you.And may the force of intellect be with you.