Almeyda:
I can assure you, it requires no
faith from my part.
I
trust in the scientific method because I have seen very strong, impressive results come from it. I most certainly would not sit here typing on a computer if it was not for the scientific method.
This is
trust, not
faith.
The theory that we all evolved from a common ancestor, is in itself scientific, because it is potentially falsifiable, and lends itself to testing.
Again,
no faith required, only trust in the scientific method.
The evidence for this theory is ample, and again, I require no
faith to accept this as evidence, only
trust in science.
So what I have now is a scientific theory, with lots of evidence to support it, and none that falsifies it, and no need for
faith.
I'm sorry, but nothing about the theory of
evolution requires faith, any more than the current theory of gravity does. Is gravity a religion as well? When I drop a cup, am I exercising my faith in gravity when I yell out in anger because I know the cup will be shattered... before the cup has struck the floor?
Also I'd like to adress a certain part of your post more specifically:
almeyda writes:
It requires alot of faith actually. As nothing becoming everything is very hard to explain and although against all odds they say it did happen and this involves faith and chance.
Nothing becoming something is not for evolution to explain. Evolution explains that life on earth evolved from a common ancestor in the past. This by no means makes any claims of nothing becoming something.
The closest I can come to this "Nothing Becoming Something" you speak of is the Big Bang, and the Big Bang has no connection to the theory of evolution whatsoever.
So again, no faith required for evolution. We could of course discuss the possibility that believing in the Big Bang is a religion, but that's a whole other topic alltogether...
This message has been edited by Kent, 05-16-2004 12:32 AM