I do feel a certain empathy towards your perspective - I, being an alleged geologist, do feel a certain resentment that biology had claimed the term "evolution" to be synonymous with "biologic evolution". As a matter of fact, this (sub)forum's name was originally just "Evolution". I was the one behind changing it to "Biological Evolution" to make it clear it was not a forum pertaining to non-biological varieties of evolution.
Regardless, however, of the vagueness of the topic title and message 1, in not specifically saying biological evolution, this topic is indeed in the "Biological Evolution" forum and indeed is about biological evolution. The fundamental presumption is that life did somehow come into existence, and then the processes of biological evolution kicked in.
Considerations of cosmological evolution belong in the
Big Bang and Cosmology forum. Considerations of geological evolution belong in the
Geology and the Great Flood forum. Consideration of whatever evolutionary process that lead to the origins of life belong in the
Origins of Life forum.
Bottom line - This topic is about BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION! Any further objections on your part about this matter are not going to be tolerated by forum management.
Adminnemooseus
Incidentally, a statement I include in my non-admin mode's "signature" is:
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
That is my personal one sentence summary of the most broad definition of evolution, of which biological evolution is a subset.
See the topic
How do you define the word Evolution?, where I discuss the above quoted at
message 8.
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