Hi Cadre, welcome to EvC.
I hope I can give you a hand on what to expect here on this site.
First off, you are in a science forum here. EvC has science forums and religious forums.
The fact that you are in a science forum will lead the posters here to hound you for data that supports your position.
Nothing will be proven outside of maths and logic. It is very common for arguments to get side tracked looking for proof. The term to use is 'strongly supports'.
They will also expect you to put your arguments into your own words as discussion bare links is verboten.
There is also a high proportion of working scientist and working biologist in the science forums (for obvious reasons, of course) who tend to assume a working knowledge of the scientific method and biological principals of their debate opponents.
A good place to start is to state your level of understanding of the disciple involved (in this case biology) and of the 'scientific method'. The level of training within the discipline (once known) can very quickly allow the discussion to progress from quibbles about definitions to actual concepts.
It's also a good idea to to examine your reasons for coming to a science forum: is your aim to put forwards scientifically derived support for the creationist position?
Or is it to provided scientifically derived evidence for a refution of ToE.
And finally, what evidence could you imagine will allow you to alter your stance? If you can't imagine any evidence that will strongly support evolution this may well leave you frustrated with this forum.
I hope these points are useful.
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