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Poll about evolutionary science

Evolutionary Theory is...:

  • Good quality, and useful science

  • Poor, or at best misguided, science where the evidence is misinterpreted

  • Nothing more then speculation, an idea with no valid evidence to support it.

  • A deliberate deception, perhaps even a conspiracy


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DNAunion

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DNAunion: Well, do I dare bother to reply? Let's see, if I speak the truth and say that evolution is scientifically sound and has value, will "certain individuals" here INSIST that I am lieing (for some only-they-can-imagine-why contorted reason)? I'll give it a shot.

I vote "Good quality, and useful science".
 
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alexgb00

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Originally posted by Late_Cretaceous
Is there anyone here who is actually offended by evolution. What I mean is, aside from disagreeing with it, does it actually bother you to see newspaper articles with headlines like "70 million year old fossil found"?

LC, i'm not offended by it, but i don't agree with it anymore. I said that the evidence is often misinterpreted. But probably a little of the last two, also.

God bless you, Late_Cretaceous!

Alex
 
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fragmentsofdreams

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Good science. Definitely has some kinks to work out, but the overall picture is clear. I would also have to say that it has to be the most misinterpreted theory at present as many people like to oversimplify it one way or the other. Thank God people haven't digested the implications of quantum physics yet.
 
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Originally posted by alexgb00
LC, i'm not offended by it, but i don't agree with it anymore. I said that the evidence is often misinterpreted. But probably a little of the last two, also.
Anybody can misinterpret evidence. In fact, that is a lot of what scientific disagreements are about: which scientist has the proper interpretation of the evidence.

But, generally speaking, when scientists reach a consensus, there is very broad agreement as to how the evidence should be interpreted. And for something like Darwin's Theory of Evolution (in particular, what is known as the "modern synthesis"), we have several generations of scientists in broad agreement with the overall theory, and most recent scientists agreeing that evolutionary theory is so embedded into biological sciences these days that it can never be dislodged (or disproven).

Most modern scientific discoveries are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Einstein didn't "disprove" Newton's laws. He only showed that, under certain circumstances, there were limits on how those laws would apply. I would never say that no future discovery would ever modify our understanding of Darwin's theory, but I do believe that no future discovery will ever show that theory to be so completely wrong as to dislodge it from the textbooks of biological science.

As some other posted noted, evolution is not to be confused with the topic of abiogenesis (the creation of "life" from "non-life"), which is the rather more important point for Christians. Thus, we have people like Behe taking the stance that the cell is irreducibly complex (a ludicrous claim, since eukaryotes begain as a symbiosis between two pre-existing organisms).

I'm mostly sad to see somebody post views like yours. It indicates that the anti-intellectuals within the fundamentalism movement are succeeding in brainwashing larger and larger portions of the population. Frankly, if they succeed, it will be the death of science, and the downfall of civilization.

But perhaps those "true Christians" don't care about preserving either science or civilization.
 
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Originally posted by fragmentsofdreams
Good science. Definitely has some kinks to work out, but the overall picture is clear. I would also have to say that it has to be the most misinterpreted theory at present as many people like to oversimplify it one way or the other. Thank God people haven't digested the implications of quantum physics yet.

Well, I tried, and what it did to me was cause me to start on the path towards atheism... I still don't fully understand QP, nor do I fully understand the implications, but I saw enough.
 
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