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Is Evolution Science?

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Dan Carroll
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Message 21 of 55 (50152)
08-12-2003 1:34 PM 		Reply to: Message 20 by joshua221
08-12-2003 1:31 PM

Re: wow...
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You can observe gravity "in action" by watching a rock fall out of your hand.
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No. What you can observe by watching a rock fall out of your hand is that things fall down. This does not allow you to observe the fundamental force that attracts bodies of mass to one another.
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There's a difference.
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Dan Carroll
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08-12-2003 1:57 PM 		Reply to: Message 25 by joshua221
08-12-2003 1:54 PM

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Yes you observe that things fall down, but if you go deeper then you realize that there is a force, a force today known as gravity.
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Excellent. Now apply the same logic to evolution.
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