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I never said that, and I am not prepared to go off topic by going down that track.
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I never said that, and I am not prepared to go off topic by going down that track.So the US was a pagan society before Darwin published Origin of Species? The Southern Baptist Convention--still the largest Protestant denomination in the US--was formed to provide Christian biblical justification for the institution of slavery. Are you saying that the Southern Baptists are pagans?
You did say the the theory of evolution was the justification for slavery, but people have always found a justification for slavery if they wanted, even Christians.I never said that, and I am not prepared to go off topic by going down that track.
This is a common mistake that Christians make. They assume that because someone does not believe their holy book that they cannot understand it. You for example do not understand the Ninth Commandment. It is not a ban on lying. I did not say that you are lying.Oh? How can you quote the Commandments to me when you don't believe that God exists and that the Commandments are in a book that you don't believe in? You must be scraping the bottom of the barrel in trying to find answers to my questions, because the fact is, you have no substantive answers at all, just a set of beliefs that you are basing your faith in. You can't prove that I am lying, which is just the same that you can't prove that what you believe in is the truth.
No, the artist impressions are only there as an aid to those that do not fully understand the science.The gaps are filled in by artists' impressions about what might have happened, but no substantive proof through actual observation or photographs can be given to show the gradual development over time of, say, a four legged creature to a blue whale, such as depicted in some evolution books.
Not even the most eminent, qualified evolution academics in the world can show just one item of evidence to show the gradual development of one kind of organism or animal to another. All they can show is development within the same organism or animal through genetic changes.
So the substance of evolution is based on pure guesswork based on faith in the belief system, and the lie is that it is presented to the world as fact when not even the foremost academic scientists can provide proof of it.
I understand and I understand why you suggest this course of action, but that has always been the case when debating die-hard creationists. I very much doubt Oscarr will dry up and wither away.I was trying to avoid having my post reported. Let me rephrase. Oscarr is spouting a very large load of infantile, uneducated, ill-informed tom-foolery and I was recommending ignoring his posts so that he gradually dries up and withers away. But there you go.
All you have to do is to provide one piece of substantive evidence through the scientific method:This is a common mistake that Christians make. They assume that because someone does not believe their holy book that they cannot understand it. You for example do not understand the Ninth Commandment. It is not a ban on lying. I did not say that you are lying.
Now this is a chance for you to demonstrate that you can reason logically. The Ninth Commandment is a ban on bearing false witness. It is not a ban on lying. If you say something about someone else that is false, even if you believe it, that is bearing false witness. What you said was not true. Now if you knowingly make a false statement about someone that is no only bearing false witness against someone, that is lying too.
That's easy. The gap is actual evidence of the different stages of the development over time of an ape to a human being, with photographs or complete skeletons of the different stages of ape-humans. A random ape-like skull, or an arm which could quite easily be that of a baboon, or a jawbone that could come from any animal such as a pig, would not suffice.No, the artist impressions are only there as an aid to those that do not fully understand the science.
So please name a valid "gap". No hand waving allowed.
And you do not know what is and what is not evidence. The concept is easy to understand. Why are you so afraid to discuss it?
I did. You ignored it.All you have to do is to provide one piece of substantive evidence through the scientific method:
The scientific method
At the core of biology and other sciences lies a problem-solving approach called the scientific method. The scientific method has five basic steps, plus one feedback step:
The scientific method is used in all sciences—including chemistry, physics, geology, and psychology. The scientists in these fields ask different questions and perform different tests. However, they use the same core approach to find answers that are logical and supported by evidence.
- Make an observation.
- Ask a question.
- Form a hypothesis, or testable explanation.
- Make a prediction based on the hypothesis.
- Test the prediction.
- Iterate: use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions.
If you can't prove that one kind of animal or organism can change to another through evolution by the scientific method described above, then aren't you bearing false witness when you say that evolution is a scientific fact?
This is not true. And besides your terminology is still wrong. You are still an ape. If you worded your claims correctly you might have more success.That's easy. The gap is actual evidence of the different stages of the development over time of an ape to a human being, with photographs or complete skeletons of the different stages of ape-humans. A random ape-like skull, or an arm which could quite easily be that of a baboon, or a jawbone that could come from any animal such as a pig, would not suffice.
So when you become a doctor you become morally perfect?What a strange comment to make. I have been a Christian almost my entire life and a scientist for over 50 years and I have never witnessed a scientist telling a deliberate lie. I have seen a few who were wrong and when it was explained to them they readily retracted their mistake. I was about to say that scientists were more truthful than the POTUS but that would be to insult scientists. So I won't say that.
That was not his claim.So when you become a doctor you become morally perfect?
Show me, one piece of scientific evidence that one organism or creature has evolved from one kind to another, even a bacteria changing into an amoeba. Remember that true science has to be the result of direct investigative observation, testing, replication or photographs showing the developmental stages.
Artists' impressions and diagrams consisting in the belief that it "probably" or "possibly" or "might have" or "seems to" happen that way is not scientific proof.
You can't provide any proof that any of us are actually apes. So your assertion has no foundation in fact.This is not true. And besides your terminology is still wrong. You are still an ape. If you worded your claims correctly you might have more success.
I can provide endless evidence. But since you refuse to learn what is and what is not evidence in the sciences then you have no moral grounds to demand evidence.You can't provide any proof that any of us are actually apes. So your assertion has no foundation in fact.
I'm not coming up with any rationalizations at all. All I am asking is for you people to provide just one little item of evidence that proves the evolutionary process.Two things to deconstruct here:
1) The term "kind" has no biological relevance. Furthermore, extant species do not evolve into one another (so no, a modern bacteria would not evolve into a amoeba). I suspect this is a misconception of the process of evolution due to unfamiliarity with the science involved.
2) You've already coming up with rationalizations to dismiss anything you don't want to look at by invoking arbitrary criteria by which you are apparently judging science. Even though it's clearly apparent you don't understand how science works, as is evidenced by your continued usage of the word "prove" in the context of scientific inquiry.
If you had an honest interest in learning about the Theory of Evolution and the evidence which supports it, I have an entire thread dedicated to that with various free courses full of information: Educational resources for learning about biology and evolution
Though I suspect that you will elect not to take advantage of such resources. Such has been my experience with creationists.
And once again you confirm that you do not understand the scientific method.I'm not coming up with any rationalizations at all. All I am asking is for you people to provide just one little item of evidence that proves the evolutionary process.
I'm not coming up with any rationalizations at all. All I am asking is for you people to provide just one little item of evidence that proves the evolutionary process.
I'm not coming up with any rationalizations at all. All I am asking is for you people to provide just one little item of evidence that proves the evolutionary process.
To the satisfaction of one who will never be satisfied.I'm not coming up with any rationalizations at all. All I am asking is for you people to provide just one little item of evidence that proves the evolutionary process.
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