evolution vs. creationism: evolution wins

Just a couple minor points.First, a Dictionary is only a history book. It does not actually tell us what a word means, rather it tells us how most people used the word in the recent past. The meanings evolve and change over time and many words actually take on contraditory meanings. Take, for example, the word BAD.Second, many of the things that you call facts are still being questioned and tested. Take as an example, "sticking your tongue on cold metal when it's below freezing". What you really mean is "So far whenever tested, here's what has happened". But still, generation after generation, it gets tested. Kids have to check for themselves to see if it's true.Science is very much sticking your tongue on metal when it's freezing. Every single scientific theory is like that. And they all get tested continuously, generation after generation. And in almost every case, given sufficient testing, they eventually get overthrown, modified or expanded.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

Whether or not the tongue gets stuck is not the issue. The important things is that even the well known, well researched things need to be tested, and every generation of kids will test that very fact.The topic here is "evolution vs. creationism: evolution wins" and that is pretty much settled. That things evolve was pretty much resolved long before Darwin published his theory. All the evidence out there seems to show Evolution as been as close to fact as gravity.The Theory of Evolution, the explanation of HOW evolution happened though is still very much tenative. It is the best explanation we've found yet but it is still being modified and refined as more and more data is collected.So Evolution is very close to something that could be called factual. On the otherhand, the Theory of Evolution is not fact, but still very tenative.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

You have yet to provide a single example of anyone teaching the TOE as fact. I would imagine that the name Theory of Evolution might be a clue that it is taught as theory, not fact.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

You do when you make a major assertion such as "The TOE is taught as fact". Well, high school kids are still at the very beginning of their education. They are still in the learning how to learn stage. But as I said, you'd think the fact that it's called "the Theory of Evolution" would give even a high school kid a clue.So the question remains, can you show where the TOE is being taught as fact? Well, me too. So far I have never heard of any alternative theories either. Well I hadn't seen any slurs on your intellegence. I think you have a very long way to go before you get a basic understanding of science or the TOE. But then that's fine. It's part of the learning curve.I did see a comment that it's pretty hard to be an ex-evolutionist when it's pretty obvious that you don't understand evolution or the TOE. That's not a slur on your intellegence, just a statement based on what you've posted so far. My post was simply a statement of fact. It's pretty hard to imagine how anyone can think that the Theory of Evolution is a fact when the very name begins with Theory.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

What does any of that have to do with the issue in Message 161?You asserted that the TOE was being taught as fact. It's time to either support the assertion or retract it.

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion

You do realize that one of the species with that particular design flaw are humans?

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Aslan is not a Tame Lion