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But there are sea mammals that are in the same order as elephants.
Thank you. That is what I thought. I was mainly trying to emphasize this point that you also made.
None of this, of course, means that any of these animals evolved from one another. Is it a matter of common ancestry.
For some reason the anti-evolution crew still believes that evolution says that humans descended from apes, etc.
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My problem with evolution is how is it that people believe in it without the actual observation of it taking place, something like our observation of a caterpillar changing into a butterfly.
They seem to be basing their conclusions on similarity of features in bones or whatever else.
It seem to me that evolution is just a big blind guess at what might be possible, but not what actually is, since there is no actual evidence for it.
Do you think convicted murderers should be sentenced to jail on the basis of forensic evidence alone? If no bystanders were there to see the murder, and the murder cannot be repeated, is it even worth prosecuting a suspect when all we have is evidence left at the crime scene to go by? The situation is analogous with the argument you cite.
Should a Christian put his or her trust in such blind faith?
I'm surprised to hear a Christian disparage faith.
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Do you think convicted murderers should be sentenced to jail on the basis of forensic evidence alone? If no bystanders were there to see the murder, and the murder cannot be repeated, is it even worth prosecuting a suspect when all we have is evidence left at the crime scene to go by? The situation is analogous with the argument you cite.
That would depend on the skills of the forensic scientist.
Many innocent people were condemned to death based on so called evidence.
That would depend on the skills of the forensic scientist.
Many innocent people were condemned to death based on so called evidence.
The evidence they had was misinterpreted.
Right-o. The evidence can indeed be misinterpreted. But the point is that there exists evidence for occurrences that happened in the past, and that reconstructing the past on the basis of this evidence is not simply a matter of faith (as you state in the OP). The best possible explanation is that which accounts for all the evidence, and the evolutionary theory is just such an explanation, taking into account evidence from embryology, biogeography, genetics, palaeontology, population biology, etc.
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Right-o. The evidence can indeed be misinterpreted. But the point is that there exists evidence for occurrences that happened in the past, and that reconstructing the past on the basis of this evidence is not simply a matter of faith (as you state in the OP). The best possible explanation is that which accounts for all the evidence, and the evolutionary theory is just such an explanation, taking into account evidence from embryology, biogeography, genetics, palaeontology, population biology, etc.
Despite all this it still ends up as a theory.
A theory suggest a possibility that may or may not be true.
'May or may not be true' is not something to base anyone's faith on.
When it becoems a fact I will probably be won over.
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