What is evolution?

Wumpini writes, Well, if you are 'regular folk' like you said you are, for what reason would you disagree with their conclussions? Seems by your statement you are not qualified to determine which conclusions are good ones and which conclusions are bad ones.you said, The problem is that thats exactly what is said however, the word theorize is being used in scientific terms here and a Scientific Theory is a facts based theory. Species evolved, that parts the fact, the part that is theorized is 'how' it evolved. Using facts gathered through scientific methods they can better piece togther exactly what the evolutionary course was, but at no point is evolution not the understood process.You could use your same statement for gravity or atoms. Science is a field of theories. Whats so conflicting about that?you write, I would like to say in reply to this statement, assuming that you take God to be a better explanation, ask yourself, how credible are those religious folk who tell you 'their' stuff is true? How good are those old school religious folk with their 'method' for gathering facts?Edited by onifre, : No reason given.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies

Wumpini writes, Why don't you apply the same skepticism to the theory of gravity or the atomic theory? Why only evolution? The same methods of gathering and interpreting evidence that is used in the field of Evolutionary Biology, is the same method that is used throughout the entire scope of science, to include medicine. By your standards all of science is a field of misguilded conclusions, do you really feel that way?you write, I'll reverse the arguement to you now, you had a religious experience and interpreted it to be God, which God then do you credit it to? Is it only based on your geographical location and what your current culture thinks God is? Or did you, like science, run a series of tests to establish the proper validity of the God you choose to have faith in? Did you subject your experience to peer review and have them try to confirm your experience? Did you do any double blind tests of more experiences to determine if your 'interpretation' is the right one? Or did you just go with your gut on that one?you write, No, I can see how you make that distinction. And again, which God are you talking about?you write, So then your skepticism is bias? An honest person would subject all things to skeptical inquiry and not be one sided. Remember all cultures were under the God theory, it was skepticism that drew a new hypotheses. We have now, as a globally united people, removed the God theory simply because it is faith based and not because it is factual. Even if science is wrong with its theories, God doesn't just step in as a better theory, all the work is still ahead of you to prove a God. Edited by onifre, : No reason given.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies

There's alot of people who would argue that this statement is not true...

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All great truths begin as blasphemies

Can you define what you mean by 'heaven'? Then all creation stories are the same and should be clumped together as well i.e. Mythology, Paganism, Bahá'í Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, Vodou...oh yeah and Christianity. So you see as a whole they seem to contradict each other, and because of that, it all becomes ridiculous at that point. He can argue till he is blue in the face, proof for what he claims to be supernatural must first be established. We argue about evolution and how it works all the time simply because everything looks evolved when you look at the fossil records. Evolution was established by observation first and has since been confirmed through genetics. The supernatural has not been observed but, is in fact the interpretation of a subjective experience from a first person account that then gets passed on to others by simply invoking faith as the catalist. This is not observable proof. This is 'take my word for it, its true'. Define supernatural without invoking the use of the word God, however, if you HAVE to use the word God then specify which one because I tend to lump all that God mumbo-jumbo togehter. Why?Edited by onifre, : No reason given.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies