Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 66 (9164 total)
6 online now:
Newest Member: ChatGPT
Post Volume: Total: 916,467 Year: 3,724/9,624 Month: 595/974 Week: 208/276 Day: 48/34 Hour: 4/6


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Is creationism science?
Quetzal
Member (Idle past 5894 days)
Posts: 3228
Joined: 01-09-2002


Message 84 of 114 (392574)
04-01-2007 12:13 PM
Reply to: Message 82 by Reserve
04-01-2007 11:46 AM


Re: Science
I fully understand the actual evidence and the reasoning why it is evidence.
And:
I make bold statements in your eyes because I question the very foundation that you are putting your trust in (i.e. scientists interpretations that point to evolution).
You do? I mean, you really understand all the evidence? Excellent! I am not a biologist, although I've been working in a closely-related field for the last dozen years or so. I can't claim to have seen even one tiny fraction of the evidence in support of evolutionary theory. However, I can say that all the myriad of observations I've personally made and all the evidence that I've personally seen, touched, smelled and occasionally been bitten by, is entirely consistent with evolution. Not one single anomaly in all those years with my nose in the dirt. Although this is probably not the appropriate thread, I would be extremely grateful if you or someone would educate me as to what evidence or observations implicitly or explicitly calls into question the ToE. I've been known to be wrong in the past, after all.

This message is a reply to:
 Message 82 by Reserve, posted 04-01-2007 11:46 AM Reserve has not replied

  
Quetzal
Member (Idle past 5894 days)
Posts: 3228
Joined: 01-09-2002


Message 114 of 114 (394024)
04-09-2007 10:10 AM
Reply to: Message 86 by Reserve
04-01-2007 1:08 PM


Re: Science
Reserve writes:
Quetzal writes:
I can't claim to have seen even one tiny fraction of the evidence in support of evolutionary theory.
So you haven't seen evidence in support of evolution, yet nothing is in conflict with evolution? Well, all this evidence is also in harmony with creationism.
Actually, you misinterpreted what I said. I didn't say I hadn't seen evidence in support of evolution. In fact, I am literally surrounded by evidence, observations, phenomena, interactions, etc on a daily basis that simply cannot be explained by everything being poofed into existence ex nihilo in 4004 BC. I am often literally knee deep in evidence in support of evolutionary theory. I have even been stung by organisms whose behavior can only be explained by evolution. BUT, and this is a very important "but" in this context, all that myriad of evidence is yet only one, teeny, tiny fraction of the available evidence in support of the theory. One single thread in the vast tapestry of mutually supporting threads that together make up the ToE. There are gobs, mountains of evidence available - all consistent. It would, IMO, take several lifetimes to encompass it all. So when I said I personally only really understood a "tiny fraction" of the available evidence (in response to your claim that you understood all the evidence), it wasn't because the evidence wasn't there beyond my ken, it was because I personally can only vouch for one small piece. So my request to you was to enlighten me on all the rest you claim to know. Especially if that huge amount I don't know would somehow validate creationism.
Understand my position better, now?

This message is a reply to:
 Message 86 by Reserve, posted 04-01-2007 1:08 PM Reserve has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024