Evolution is not science

I get what you're saying, but I think you need to understand the degree to which Darwin's model of random mutation and natural selection has come to be so associated with "evolution". While, in the past, there were alternate, non-Darwinian theories of evolution (Lamark's model being the most famous example), those theories had all been discredited by a century ago.The term "evolution" has come to be so strongly associated with Darwin's model - at the same time that we've surpassed Darwin by merging his theory with molecular genetics - that, surely, any theory that would hope to refute and replace it would be called something other than "evolution."So, I'm both agreeing with you and disagreeing with you. In the past, the term "evolution" could have been applied to a number of competing models - Darwin's, Lamark's, even Lysenko's - but, all this time later, the basic Darwinian model has so come to dominate evolutionary thought that the terms are surely inextricable.

Why do you say that, when genesis 1 and 2 are both written in a style of Hebrew poetry used to indicate mythical events?Like "Once upon a time" in English literature, Genesis 1 and 2 contain phrases that, to the intended audience, clearly indicate that the narrative is mythical. What leads you to believe that genesis is not mythical when it's written to indicate that it is?

Except that it's not. It's not at all the first book, by any stretch of the imagination.I can't make heads or tails of the rest of your post. It's just nonsense.

The Bible isn't alphabetical; dictionaries are alphabetical. I think the word you mean is "phonetic", but the fact that Hebrew has a phonetic writing system doesn't strike me as anything but trivia, an artifact of Hebrew's descent from Aramaic (I'm talking about the writing system here), which itself descended from the Brahmic scripts of India.And obviously, examples of that writing are known. People didn't invent writing to write the Bible, Joe. They had been writing for centuries before the first records of the texts that formed the Bible. Some of those manuscripts survive to this day.Edited by crashfrog, : No reason given.

I don't understand what you mean by "alphabetical book." Do you mean "phonetic writing system"? It does. Discontinuous cultures. The first Qin emperor of China, for instance, had a great deal of Chinese literature burned.Nonetheless, enough writing survives from those times that we know those cultures had writings. Which indicates that these were mythical figures.

I'll be honest with you, Joe - I can't make heads or tails of what you're trying to say. Since I can't understand your argument, I certainly am not going to be able to grapple with it one way or another.Edited by crashfrog, : No reason given.Edited by crashfrog, : No reason given.