Difference between religion and science fora

FaithYou have been told many, many times that one of the hallmarks of science is Tentativity. To now pretend that you do not know that says one of two things.Either you are incapable of learning or you are simply refusing to acknowledge what you have been told.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Yes, you might say that. LOLThere are no terms showing degrees of tentativity that I know of. There is the body of evidence that supports each conclusion.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

There is an area of mathematics called Proof. For example, there are proofs in geometry. There the term can be validly used.There are some things that are so well supported that they may be considered as very, very close to being proven. Evolution is one such as is the fact of an old universe. While it is possible that either of those might be wrong, the universe could have been created yesterday, the likelyhood is so low that most people simply disregard such considerations.You can use the general tem proof or proved as long as it is with the understanding that it really is held tentatively.It is possible that evolution did not happen.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

The evidence for evolution is a FACT. The Evolution happened is still tentative but so well supported that it is as close to being proved as anything known. The Theory of Evolution is held tentatively but it is the best explanation available. However it is possibly the best supported theory in science.

Well so far in other threads you have not been able to convice folk that any of those things were ever taught as facts.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Well, let's look at them.I must admit that my education was some time ago, but I can say that those were not actually what I was taught. In addition, they are for the most part just nonsense statements. What does that statement mean? I was taught that Neaderthal lived in communities, likely had fire, made tools, seemed to have some belief structure, took care of injured members of the community. The question of mating was open and unresolved.So the only reasonable conclusion is that randman is simply talking nonsense. Again, that was simply not what I was taught. In fact, I cannot remember the question of a missing link even coming up except as a joke. The second sentence is simply randman stating that he is incredulous. Hardly evidence. A whole thread has been devoted to that issue. Again, a mistatement. There are many examples of fossils that show gradual change. One good example is the changes in shellfish over time. There are also examples of rapid change. There is no reason that both cannot happen simultaneously. IMHO, kinda. It is certainly one of the things that support the TOE but as you have been told, there is a difference between the TOE and evolution. Science also hold tentativity as a basic tenet. That makes his assertion only yet another of his many unsupported and incorrect assertions.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion