Definition of Evolution

Ah, you're going for the ol' "We can't know anything about the past without being there" dodge.You're wrong. Changes in populations which are well-evidenced by the facts available to us are neither speculation nor fantasy, whether they occur in the present or occurred in the past.---Let's post this again, it's more or less a complete summary of the entire EvC debate.Evolutionist: This man has been shot.Creationist: How do you know? You weren't there.Evolutionist: He has a bullet wound in his skull, he has a bullet in his brain, he has scorch marks consistent with gunpowder on his forehead, here's CCTV footage of someone shooting him, there's a strong smell of gunpowder in the air, and look, here's a smoking gun.Creationist: That's unscientific! It's impossible to know about the past! Your belief that he's been shot is a religion! Waaah!Evolutionist: If you ever get called for jury service, please recuse yourself on the grounds of idiocy.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

But this is, y'know, a huge great enormous honking lie, isn't it? Yes, but that is a great huge lie with, like, great big neon lights all over it saying "THIS IS A LIE" in capital letters, isn't it? Because these "dissenting objections" are a bunch of lies, which deserve "scathing anger".Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

You know nothing of my religion, which I have not discussed. I don't see how any of that was an answer to my post.'Cos it wasn't.You might want to look up the word "tirade", by the way.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Hmm ... a post containing no facts.Instead, you just babbled about an imaginary "philosophy" and an imaginary "religion" that you've invented in your head.Ah yes, creationism.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Yes, we realise that creationists exist.There are also people who "contest" the Holocaust, the Big Bang, the round earth, heliocentrism, and the fact that the law says that you have to pay income tax.Anything can be "contested", all you need is a crank and a soapbox. By cranks who know damn all about science. However, saying that there are tree rings, fossils, and rock layers is not a form of lying. It's a form of telling the exact literal truth.Sheesh, how much reality can you deny?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

No. I'm responding to your post. I present the facts as facts because they are facts. When I write "There are also people who "contest" the Holocaust, the Big Bang, the round earth, heliocentrism, and the fact that the law says that you have to pay income tax" --- those are what we call "facts". As in true things that, y'know, correspond with reality. By which I take it that you mean that your fantasy that I am a moderator corroborates your fantasies about the moderators.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Yes. We know about convergent evolution.But that is not the same as saying that "evolution can happen even without the inheritance of genetic traits". He's a paleontologist. No, but there might be considerable confusion as to what this has to do about "evolution without the inheritance of genetic traits".

Where by "we", you can't even include your fellow-creationists. It is true that creationists don't admit that the fossil record does not support the ToE --- however, they did not do so in the past. Perhaps you could quote one evolutionist telling this lie. Or perhaps this is some crazy fantasy that you've made up in your head?And perhaps you could tell us who you think produces published scholarship about the fossil record if not evolutionists, and why pointing out the bleedin' obvious constitutes an "admission"?

And he also says that it is, so which of him are you going to trust?Or perhaps both statements would make more sense in context?

You keep mentioning these "objective persons" who agree with every self-serving wish-fulfillment fantasy that drifts into your head.Who are they, and how do you find out their opinions?Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Have you ever noticed how scientists disagree with you completely about what is or is not good science?Have you ever pondered why it is that scientists disagree with you about science?Something for you to think about, eh?